1 00:00:10,243 --> 00:00:13,618 ♪ (MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 2 00:00:24,827 --> 00:00:26,576 In telling the story of Woodstock '99, 3 00:00:26,660 --> 00:00:29,201 it would have been really easy to structure this as a comedy, 4 00:00:29,284 --> 00:00:31,702 poking fun of all things late 1990s. 5 00:00:31,785 --> 00:00:34,618 The way people dressed, the music they listen to. 6 00:00:34,702 --> 00:00:37,243 But, in reality, as that weekend unfolded, 7 00:00:37,326 --> 00:00:39,326 it played out much more like a horror film. 8 00:00:51,326 --> 00:00:53,535 (BIRDS CHIRPING) 9 00:00:55,743 --> 00:00:57,076 INTERVIEWER: Mike, what's the worst part 10 00:00:57,159 --> 00:00:58,827 of running one of these things? 11 00:01:00,076 --> 00:01:01,827 -The worst part? -INTERVIEWER: What's the worst part 12 00:01:01,910 --> 00:01:03,159 about running one of them? 13 00:01:03,993 --> 00:01:05,034 MICHAEL LANG: I don't know. 14 00:01:05,118 --> 00:01:06,410 -INTERVIEWER: Huh? -I don't know. 15 00:01:06,493 --> 00:01:07,952 -Do you dig it all? -Yeah. 16 00:01:11,660 --> 00:01:13,326 I guess the biggest hassle 17 00:01:13,410 --> 00:01:15,201 is dealing with the politics, you know. 18 00:01:15,284 --> 00:01:16,451 There are a lot of politics involved, 19 00:01:16,535 --> 00:01:18,451 -you mean with the cities? -MICHAEL: Yeah. 20 00:01:18,535 --> 00:01:19,952 And you got that solved? 21 00:01:20,034 --> 00:01:22,118 -Well, looks that way. -INTERVIEWER: Looks that way. 22 00:01:22,201 --> 00:01:23,785 -Where are you gonna go from here? -(EXHALES) 23 00:01:23,868 --> 00:01:25,410 -I mean-- -You gonna do another one? 24 00:01:25,493 --> 00:01:27,284 -If it works. -(BIKE ENGINE REVVING) 25 00:01:27,368 --> 00:01:31,034 ♪ (ROCK MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 26 00:01:37,827 --> 00:01:39,660 RADIO HOST: Okay, guys. It is hot out there. 27 00:01:39,743 --> 00:01:41,702 The National Weather Service has already issued 28 00:01:41,785 --> 00:01:43,284 a heat advisory for your day tomorrow. 29 00:01:43,368 --> 00:01:45,118 Which's gonna feel like it's a hundred degrees. 30 00:01:45,201 --> 00:01:46,618 RADIO HOST 2: How's the traffic coming in? 31 00:01:46,702 --> 00:01:49,993 MAN: It's bad. It's just backed up everywhere. 32 00:01:50,076 --> 00:01:51,910 REPORTER: When the ball drops on the year 2000, 33 00:01:51,993 --> 00:01:54,118 it will be a momentous event for the world 34 00:01:54,201 --> 00:01:55,827 and for the US economy, 35 00:01:55,910 --> 00:01:58,827 which is closing in on on its longest expansion ever. 36 00:01:58,910 --> 00:02:01,451 The decade has been marked by strong growth, 37 00:02:01,535 --> 00:02:03,993 the lowest unemployment in a generation. 38 00:02:04,076 --> 00:02:06,576 And yet remarkably, little inflation. 39 00:02:06,660 --> 00:02:08,159 MAN 2: How you guys doing today, welcome to Woodstock. 40 00:02:08,243 --> 00:02:10,451 Where you wanna go, East Stage, West Stage, Center Stage? 41 00:02:10,535 --> 00:02:11,952 -MAN 3: Center stage. -MAN 2: You wanna stay straight-- 42 00:02:12,034 --> 00:02:13,284 Straight ahead, okay? Straight ahead. 43 00:02:13,368 --> 00:02:15,034 Okay, there you go. Yup, just leave him up here. 44 00:02:15,118 --> 00:02:16,243 So have fun, okay, guys? 45 00:02:16,326 --> 00:02:17,993 -You guys okay? You got your toilet paper? -Yes. 46 00:02:18,076 --> 00:02:20,993 REPORTER 2: A senate panel describes Y2K 47 00:02:21,076 --> 00:02:23,118 as a worldwide crisis. 48 00:02:23,201 --> 00:02:26,827 -Welcome to 1999 on MTV. -Whoo! 49 00:02:26,910 --> 00:02:29,451 -CARSON DALY: Limp Bizkit! -MAN: Woodstock '99. 50 00:02:29,535 --> 00:02:32,952 Stay home for the trip of your life on pay per view. 51 00:02:33,034 --> 00:02:34,118 INTERVIEWER: And what's the town like? 52 00:02:34,201 --> 00:02:35,993 WOMAN: It's pretty cool. They're all nice. 53 00:02:36,076 --> 00:02:38,159 Like, this is the first, like, concert I've been to 54 00:02:38,243 --> 00:02:40,868 where everybody that you'll meet is really nice to you. 55 00:02:40,952 --> 00:02:42,702 REPORTER 3: The biggest news, shortly before 1:30 56 00:02:42,785 --> 00:02:45,368 this afternoon, President Clinton was impeached. 57 00:02:45,451 --> 00:02:46,743 BILL CLINTON: I'm gonna say this again. 58 00:02:46,827 --> 00:02:51,118 I did not have sexual relations with that woman. 59 00:02:51,201 --> 00:02:52,993 REPORTER 4: So this is the night before, the night before 60 00:02:53,076 --> 00:02:54,952 the big day kicking off, Woodstock '99. 61 00:02:55,034 --> 00:02:57,660 And right here is a little bit of a party going on. 62 00:02:57,743 --> 00:03:00,535 What's happening is 350,000 people 63 00:03:00,618 --> 00:03:03,034 are gonna be taken care of, 64 00:03:03,118 --> 00:03:05,410 by about 10,000 staff people, 65 00:03:05,493 --> 00:03:08,034 all looking over the 350,000 people. 66 00:03:08,118 --> 00:03:11,118 ♪ (ROCK MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 67 00:03:17,827 --> 00:03:21,660 -♪ (MUSIC STOPS) ♪ -(CROWD CHEERING) 68 00:03:26,618 --> 00:03:31,076 ♪ (MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 69 00:03:31,159 --> 00:03:34,034 The biggest concert of the year was Woodstock '94 70 00:03:34,118 --> 00:03:35,118 in Saugerties, New York. 71 00:03:35,201 --> 00:03:37,702 The fans not only wore the mud at the festival, 72 00:03:37,785 --> 00:03:38,868 but they also ate it. 73 00:03:38,952 --> 00:03:40,910 What was initially predicted to be an overhyped, 74 00:03:40,993 --> 00:03:44,368 commercial disaster turned out to be nothing of the sort. 75 00:03:44,451 --> 00:03:48,034 ♪ ("DREAMS" BY THE CRANBERRIES PLAYING) ♪ 76 00:03:56,827 --> 00:04:00,076 ♪ Oh, my life ♪ 77 00:04:00,159 --> 00:04:03,618 ♪ Is changing everyday ♪ 78 00:04:03,702 --> 00:04:07,034 ♪ In every possible way... ♪ 79 00:04:08,451 --> 00:04:10,410 JOHN SCHER: I get stopped all the time 80 00:04:10,493 --> 00:04:13,243 by people who had the time of their life 81 00:04:13,326 --> 00:04:15,076 at Woodstock '94. 82 00:04:15,159 --> 00:04:18,702 There was a tone that was set, an expectation 83 00:04:18,785 --> 00:04:21,952 not only of the artists that were performing 84 00:04:22,034 --> 00:04:23,493 but an expectation 85 00:04:23,576 --> 00:04:25,535 of how the audience would perform. 86 00:04:26,410 --> 00:04:27,618 We had probably 87 00:04:27,702 --> 00:04:30,785 three or four hundred thousand people at the festival. 88 00:04:30,868 --> 00:04:33,952 Its biggest problem was the fences came down, 89 00:04:34,034 --> 00:04:36,243 so we lost money. 90 00:04:36,326 --> 00:04:38,118 Also, you know, it was raining. 91 00:04:38,201 --> 00:04:40,493 It rained on and off all weekend, 92 00:04:40,576 --> 00:04:42,451 it was an absolute mud pit. 93 00:04:42,535 --> 00:04:46,159 People helped each other, loved each other, 94 00:04:46,243 --> 00:04:48,284 no violence. 95 00:04:48,368 --> 00:04:51,868 It was sort of, probably, the last hurrah 96 00:04:51,952 --> 00:04:54,326 for the baby boomers and their kids. 97 00:04:54,410 --> 00:04:57,618 -Welcome to Woodstock 1994! -Welcome to Woodstock 1994! 98 00:04:57,702 --> 00:04:59,535 MICHAEL: When we did Woodstock '94, 99 00:04:59,618 --> 00:05:02,743 the idea was to function as a bridge 100 00:05:02,827 --> 00:05:05,702 between the music that we generated in the '60s 101 00:05:05,785 --> 00:05:07,868 and what was contemporary in the '90s. 102 00:05:07,952 --> 00:05:13,159 And it worked really well. The weekend was amazing. 103 00:05:13,243 --> 00:05:17,201 JOHN: We replicated a lineup that was reasonably close 104 00:05:17,284 --> 00:05:18,576 to what '69 was. 105 00:05:18,660 --> 00:05:22,284 You know, the general peace, love, and harmony thing 106 00:05:22,368 --> 00:05:25,076 -worked still. -♪ (DOLORES VOCALIZING) ♪ 107 00:05:25,159 --> 00:05:26,326 JOHN: After the festival, 108 00:05:26,410 --> 00:05:28,451 Michael and I looked at each other and said, 109 00:05:28,535 --> 00:05:31,660 "Okay, let's do it again in like five years." 110 00:05:31,743 --> 00:05:37,201 -♪ (VOCALIZING) ♪ -(CROWD CHEERING) 111 00:05:37,284 --> 00:05:40,576 MICHAEL: Woodstock seems to remain the American festival. 112 00:05:40,660 --> 00:05:42,868 And I think we should do it every five years or so, 113 00:05:42,952 --> 00:05:44,618 so a new generation of college 114 00:05:44,702 --> 00:05:47,952 and graduating high school kids get to experience it. 115 00:05:52,618 --> 00:05:55,159 JOHN: In '99 we found a perfect site 116 00:05:55,243 --> 00:05:56,284 in Rome, New York. 117 00:05:56,368 --> 00:05:58,368 They've got this retired air force base 118 00:05:58,451 --> 00:06:00,326 that they don't know what to do with. 119 00:06:00,410 --> 00:06:01,868 JOHN GRIFFO: When Woodstock Ventures 120 00:06:01,952 --> 00:06:03,159 first approached us, 121 00:06:03,243 --> 00:06:05,702 I recognized and realized that this was an opportunity 122 00:06:05,785 --> 00:06:08,326 for the big event that a community 123 00:06:08,410 --> 00:06:09,952 could put their arms around. 124 00:06:10,034 --> 00:06:12,159 Bottom line is, we wanna encourage people 125 00:06:12,243 --> 00:06:14,576 to buy some tickets and come to Rome, NY 126 00:06:14,660 --> 00:06:16,159 the weekend of the 22nd. 127 00:06:16,243 --> 00:06:18,910 It's gonna be a memorable, exciting experience. 128 00:06:18,993 --> 00:06:22,326 Five years earlier, we lost the air force base here 129 00:06:22,410 --> 00:06:24,993 which obviously had an enormous impact 130 00:06:25,076 --> 00:06:27,034 on this community emotionally. 131 00:06:27,118 --> 00:06:28,910 It was akin to economic Armageddon 132 00:06:28,993 --> 00:06:31,118 because we lost thousands of jobs 133 00:06:31,201 --> 00:06:32,785 and thousands of people. 134 00:06:33,493 --> 00:06:35,410 JOHN: The base was ideal 135 00:06:35,493 --> 00:06:37,952 because it had a lot of infrastructure things 136 00:06:38,034 --> 00:06:41,410 that we would've otherwise needed to build. 137 00:06:41,493 --> 00:06:44,410 JOHN: Also being a former military installation, 138 00:06:44,493 --> 00:06:45,827 it was enclosed. 139 00:06:47,284 --> 00:06:49,868 Griffiss was well-suited to make sure 140 00:06:49,952 --> 00:06:52,076 that people came with tickets, 141 00:06:52,868 --> 00:06:54,243 for a change. 142 00:06:54,326 --> 00:06:56,660 JOHN: And then from a philosophic perspective, 143 00:06:56,743 --> 00:07:00,284 if you look at Isaiah and the old beating swords 144 00:07:00,368 --> 00:07:01,451 into plow shares, 145 00:07:01,535 --> 00:07:03,535 well this was planes into plow shares. 146 00:07:09,368 --> 00:07:11,326 NICK RIZZO: I can sure remember the lead up to it, 147 00:07:11,410 --> 00:07:13,743 and it was really all anybody could talk about. 148 00:07:13,827 --> 00:07:15,118 (PEOPLE CHEERING) 149 00:07:15,201 --> 00:07:17,618 NICK: There was a local bar that was called Stockyard Inn 150 00:07:17,702 --> 00:07:20,368 and then they changed their name to The Woodstock Inn. 151 00:07:20,451 --> 00:07:22,493 So, you know, everybody was sort of trying 152 00:07:22,576 --> 00:07:25,785 to get involved and kind of capitalize on the excitement. 153 00:07:25,868 --> 00:07:27,618 MATEO: Hi, I'm Mateo. I'm from Rome, New York. 154 00:07:27,702 --> 00:07:29,326 Here at wonderful Griffiss Air Force Base 155 00:07:29,410 --> 00:07:31,451 with a bunch of other talented artists here 156 00:07:31,535 --> 00:07:33,660 who are working on the mural. Two miles long, 157 00:07:33,743 --> 00:07:35,702 going all the way around this entire park. 158 00:07:35,785 --> 00:07:37,660 ARTIST: These kids right here helped me create 159 00:07:37,743 --> 00:07:40,284 a 500-foot mural 160 00:07:40,368 --> 00:07:43,785 that's kind of a celebrated, happy version of a mosh pit. 161 00:07:45,243 --> 00:07:47,326 MICHAEL: It was always our intention 162 00:07:47,410 --> 00:07:50,493 to do something that was not your parents' Woodstock. 163 00:07:50,576 --> 00:07:53,493 It was definitely something for the kids. 164 00:07:53,576 --> 00:07:55,118 DAVID VADNAIS: You know, I had just graduated 165 00:07:55,201 --> 00:07:57,243 so once I got my money for graduation 166 00:07:57,326 --> 00:08:00,076 I didn't really have much of an excuse. 167 00:08:00,159 --> 00:08:02,993 It was expensive, but I'm gonna see 168 00:08:03,076 --> 00:08:05,868 all these bands, so it seemed like a no-brainer. 169 00:08:05,952 --> 00:08:08,493 My friend Dave De Rosia was the guy 170 00:08:08,576 --> 00:08:10,284 who was like, "Let's go to Woodstock." 171 00:08:10,368 --> 00:08:12,660 My older brother Rob was next in line 172 00:08:12,743 --> 00:08:14,368 to join in and then my younger brother 173 00:08:14,451 --> 00:08:17,451 and the girl he was dating at the time wanted to go, too. 174 00:08:18,118 --> 00:08:20,910 It was gonna be awesome. 175 00:08:20,993 --> 00:08:22,910 MIKE ELLING: When I saw the lineup, I was like, 176 00:08:22,993 --> 00:08:24,034 "Dude, I am going to this." 177 00:08:24,118 --> 00:08:26,868 Like, I can't imagine a better lineup 178 00:08:26,952 --> 00:08:28,785 for the music that I love right now 179 00:08:28,868 --> 00:08:30,702 and they're all in one place 180 00:08:30,785 --> 00:08:33,201 and it's called Woodstock and I get to go. 181 00:08:33,284 --> 00:08:35,034 DAVID: Everybody wanted to see Kid Rock. 182 00:08:35,118 --> 00:08:37,743 -KEN HINELY: DMX. -MIKE: Korn. Metallica. 183 00:08:37,827 --> 00:08:38,993 KEN: Insane Clown Posse? 184 00:08:39,076 --> 00:08:40,535 JESSICA LEVIN: Oh! Rage Against the Machine! 185 00:08:40,618 --> 00:08:41,827 KEN: And Limp Bizkit. 186 00:08:41,910 --> 00:08:45,326 In 1999, those guys were massive. 187 00:08:45,410 --> 00:08:47,076 JESSICA: I remember I had to beg my parents. 188 00:08:47,159 --> 00:08:48,660 I was working at a pizzeria and I remember 189 00:08:48,743 --> 00:08:49,868 being on the phone with him and being like, 190 00:08:49,952 --> 00:08:51,159 "Dad, I'll go for you. I mean 191 00:08:51,243 --> 00:08:53,201 you didn't get to go to '69, I'll go to '99." 192 00:08:53,284 --> 00:08:55,910 I mean I'm graduating like let's just go do this, 193 00:08:55,993 --> 00:08:58,410 this is gonna be... (BLOWS) ...like the big send off, 194 00:08:58,493 --> 00:09:00,660 you know? It's Woodstock. 195 00:09:01,159 --> 00:09:05,618 (CROWD CHEERING) 196 00:09:07,076 --> 00:09:08,326 JAMES BROWN: One, two, three, four 197 00:09:08,410 --> 00:09:09,993 ♪ ("GET ON UP" BY JAMES BROWN PLAYING) ♪ 198 00:09:10,076 --> 00:09:13,618 -♪ Get up, get on up ♪ -♪ Get on up ♪ 199 00:09:13,702 --> 00:09:14,993 ♪ Stay on the scene ♪ 200 00:09:15,076 --> 00:09:17,451 -♪ Get on up, get on up ♪ -♪ Like a sex machine ♪ 201 00:09:18,034 --> 00:09:19,243 ♪ Get up ♪ 202 00:09:19,326 --> 00:09:21,493 DAVID: I remember vividly like coming up over the hill, 203 00:09:21,576 --> 00:09:23,243 and you're just-- you're blown away, right? 204 00:09:23,326 --> 00:09:26,326 The thing is huge and there's people everywhere. 205 00:09:26,410 --> 00:09:28,576 There's people dressed ridiculously 206 00:09:28,660 --> 00:09:30,284 or not dressed at all. 207 00:09:30,368 --> 00:09:31,702 And I was thinking like, 208 00:09:31,785 --> 00:09:34,743 "How did this many people already get in here?" 209 00:09:34,827 --> 00:09:37,368 -Two lanes, two lanes! -MAN: We got a founder. 210 00:09:37,451 --> 00:09:38,493 Let's go! 211 00:09:38,576 --> 00:09:40,243 One day this is gonna be on some sort of documentary. 212 00:09:40,326 --> 00:09:41,785 MAN 2: Hey Vince, you got it all? 213 00:09:41,868 --> 00:09:44,118 Motherfucking Woodstock, baby. 214 00:09:44,201 --> 00:09:46,368 BEN ABT: Security was relatively minimal. 215 00:09:46,451 --> 00:09:48,827 Especially compared to the TSA days of today. 216 00:09:48,910 --> 00:09:50,743 MAN 3: Our friend Andy wound up making friends 217 00:09:50,827 --> 00:09:52,493 with the security guards up front. 218 00:09:52,576 --> 00:09:54,993 And all the beer that they were taking away from people 219 00:09:55,076 --> 00:09:56,785 and all the chairs that they were taking away 220 00:09:56,868 --> 00:10:00,034 from people, are right here right now. 221 00:10:00,118 --> 00:10:03,118 BEN: The peace patrol, who were monitoring the gates, 222 00:10:03,201 --> 00:10:04,868 they just kinda looked in your stuff, 223 00:10:04,952 --> 00:10:06,284 said, "All right, you're good to go." 224 00:10:06,368 --> 00:10:07,618 Which immediately made me think, 225 00:10:07,702 --> 00:10:10,410 "Wow, I think a bunch of people have a lot of drugs here." 226 00:10:10,493 --> 00:10:14,410 JOHN: We expanded Woodstock '99 by the pay-per-view 227 00:10:14,493 --> 00:10:16,201 and the MTV coverage. 228 00:10:16,284 --> 00:10:17,993 People running around topless and... 229 00:10:18,076 --> 00:10:20,326 JOHN: In those days, MTV held the heartbeat 230 00:10:20,410 --> 00:10:23,243 of the younger generation in their palm. 231 00:10:23,326 --> 00:10:24,493 TARIQ TROTTER: When we performed, 232 00:10:24,576 --> 00:10:26,326 it was like 1000 degrees. 233 00:10:26,410 --> 00:10:29,368 Somehow, the way my mind worked, was that 234 00:10:29,451 --> 00:10:32,868 the fact that the sweater I had on didn't have sleeves 235 00:10:32,952 --> 00:10:34,326 was going to... (CHUCKLES) 236 00:10:34,410 --> 00:10:35,952 ...like that was gonna make a difference 237 00:10:36,034 --> 00:10:38,660 in the temperature on stage. 238 00:10:38,743 --> 00:10:40,535 LIZ POLAY-WETTENGEL: I remember it being really hot 239 00:10:40,618 --> 00:10:44,827 and I remember a lot of chaos, a lot of confusion. 240 00:10:44,910 --> 00:10:47,952 People didn't know where they were supposed to go 241 00:10:48,034 --> 00:10:49,993 and there was a lot of white men. 242 00:10:50,076 --> 00:10:51,827 A lot of white boys I should say. 243 00:10:51,910 --> 00:10:54,952 It felt really young. Lotta of white boys 244 00:10:55,034 --> 00:10:56,952 wearing backwards baseball caps. 245 00:10:57,034 --> 00:11:01,743 -♪ (MUSIC STOPS) ♪ -(INDISTINCT CHATTER) 246 00:11:02,493 --> 00:11:04,284 JOURNALIST: (OVER PA) 247 00:11:13,368 --> 00:11:15,910 Our hopes are that people have as good time this weekend 248 00:11:15,993 --> 00:11:17,201 as they did at Saugerties 249 00:11:17,284 --> 00:11:20,243 and as they did in 1969 in Bethel. 250 00:11:20,326 --> 00:11:21,660 I think this is a better facility 251 00:11:21,743 --> 00:11:23,034 than any place we've been. 252 00:11:23,118 --> 00:11:26,702 So we think that this has the potential to be, you know, 253 00:11:26,785 --> 00:11:28,493 one of the best things we've ever done. 254 00:11:28,576 --> 00:11:31,910 And be an incredible weekend for everybody who joins us. 255 00:11:31,993 --> 00:11:34,576 JOURNALIST: So, given the distance between the stages, 256 00:11:34,660 --> 00:11:37,243 any advice for people who are here for the music? 257 00:11:37,326 --> 00:11:38,743 Yeah, yeah. 258 00:11:40,243 --> 00:11:43,076 That's true. It's about two-thirds of a mile. 259 00:11:43,159 --> 00:11:44,827 And in fact we have over a 100 acts, 260 00:11:44,910 --> 00:11:46,660 so you're not gonna be able to see everything. 261 00:11:46,743 --> 00:11:47,993 There's a tremendous amount to do, 262 00:11:48,076 --> 00:11:49,493 you're not gonna run out of things to do. 263 00:11:49,576 --> 00:11:50,660 You can go 24 hours a day, 264 00:11:50,743 --> 00:11:52,201 we're open all day and all night. 265 00:11:52,284 --> 00:11:55,368 We've designed a number of things in addition 266 00:11:55,451 --> 00:11:56,535 to the two main stages. 267 00:11:56,618 --> 00:11:58,410 There's an emerging artist stage, 268 00:11:58,493 --> 00:12:01,618 there's the rave for those who like to stay up all night 269 00:12:01,702 --> 00:12:03,743 and are more nocturnal than I am. 270 00:12:03,827 --> 00:12:06,451 There is the 24-hour-a-day film festival, 271 00:12:06,535 --> 00:12:08,326 there's the sports park, 272 00:12:08,410 --> 00:12:10,993 there are a lot of non-for-profit booths 273 00:12:11,076 --> 00:12:16,368 that political conversation and dialogue can take place. 274 00:12:16,451 --> 00:12:21,410 This is already very much taken shape of its own city. 275 00:12:21,493 --> 00:12:23,451 MAUREEN CALAHAN: I mean, you had two main stages 276 00:12:23,535 --> 00:12:25,076 that were a mile from each other. 277 00:12:25,159 --> 00:12:28,618 They're on a black tarmac in the middle of nowhere. 278 00:12:28,702 --> 00:12:34,284 I mean, think about the irony of Woodstock on a military base. 279 00:12:34,368 --> 00:12:36,618 STEVEN HYDEN: The appeal of Griffiss for the organizers 280 00:12:36,702 --> 00:12:38,159 was that it was a place 281 00:12:38,243 --> 00:12:40,451 that would be really hard to gate-crash 282 00:12:40,535 --> 00:12:41,952 because the peace wall. 283 00:12:42,034 --> 00:12:44,535 And really, I mean, like if we're talking about peace 284 00:12:44,618 --> 00:12:47,576 is a wall, like, a great metaphor for that? 285 00:12:47,660 --> 00:12:49,910 (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 286 00:12:49,993 --> 00:12:53,827 ♪ (UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 287 00:12:53,910 --> 00:12:57,743 MICHAEL: Woodstock '69 was about trying to show 288 00:12:57,827 --> 00:13:00,493 that there was a better way for people to treat each other. 289 00:13:00,576 --> 00:13:02,535 With more compassion and more understanding 290 00:13:02,618 --> 00:13:03,952 and given the opportunity, 291 00:13:04,034 --> 00:13:07,785 people will behave that way, will show their better self. 292 00:13:07,868 --> 00:13:09,618 And then, I mean, what could be better, 293 00:13:09,702 --> 00:13:11,993 just not being hassled by anyone, smoking a joint 294 00:13:12,076 --> 00:13:14,743 under the stars listening to great music? 295 00:13:14,827 --> 00:13:17,326 STEVEN: Michael Lang is who I call 296 00:13:17,410 --> 00:13:19,702 the Willie Wonka of Woodstock. 297 00:13:19,785 --> 00:13:22,743 He's this guy who's eternally boyish, 298 00:13:22,827 --> 00:13:24,493 he's presiding over this fantasy land 299 00:13:24,576 --> 00:13:27,368 that every generation of kids wants to visit. 300 00:13:27,451 --> 00:13:30,702 But if you spend more than a couple minutes 301 00:13:30,785 --> 00:13:32,785 at the chocolate factory, you realize that 302 00:13:32,868 --> 00:13:37,618 it's not the idyllic utopia that it presents itself to be. 303 00:13:39,785 --> 00:13:41,868 WESLEY MORRIS: The thing about the Woodstock mythology is 304 00:13:41,952 --> 00:13:43,660 I feel like people are being selective 305 00:13:43,743 --> 00:13:46,410 about how they're choosing to remember 306 00:13:46,493 --> 00:13:49,118 what happened, to suit their own ends. 307 00:13:49,201 --> 00:13:52,034 And the way in which we choose to romanticize, 308 00:13:52,118 --> 00:13:55,910 it has everything to do with who is telling stories. 309 00:13:57,118 --> 00:13:59,743 MAUREEN: Unlike the prevailing lore 310 00:13:59,827 --> 00:14:02,535 would have it, Woodstock '69 was anything 311 00:14:02,618 --> 00:14:04,576 but peace, love and, you know, three days 312 00:14:04,660 --> 00:14:05,868 of sex, drugs, and rock and roll. 313 00:14:05,952 --> 00:14:08,284 It was a mess, there were riots. 314 00:14:08,368 --> 00:14:10,785 The US Army had to airlift supplies in. 315 00:14:10,868 --> 00:14:12,535 People died. 316 00:14:12,618 --> 00:14:14,243 STEVEN: Really, it's out of sheer luck 317 00:14:14,326 --> 00:14:16,868 that it didn't end up worse than it did. 318 00:14:16,952 --> 00:14:19,368 And there's really some very near disasters 319 00:14:19,451 --> 00:14:21,368 that happened at the original Woodstock 320 00:14:21,451 --> 00:14:23,284 that nobody remembers now. 321 00:14:23,368 --> 00:14:25,284 For instance, there was this group called 322 00:14:25,368 --> 00:14:27,034 the Up Against the Wall Motherfuckers, 323 00:14:27,118 --> 00:14:29,827 who were upset about how much was being charged 324 00:14:29,910 --> 00:14:31,243 for food at the festival. 325 00:14:31,326 --> 00:14:35,201 So they set fire to like a dozen food stands. 326 00:14:35,284 --> 00:14:37,576 The problem is that instead of learning 327 00:14:37,660 --> 00:14:39,535 from the mistakes that were made, 328 00:14:39,618 --> 00:14:40,910 we instead created 329 00:14:40,993 --> 00:14:44,159 this romanticized mythology in the form of the documentary. 330 00:14:44,243 --> 00:14:47,034 People watched the film and they chose to believe 331 00:14:47,118 --> 00:14:48,827 that that's the way it really was. 332 00:14:48,910 --> 00:14:49,993 (CROWD CHEERING) 333 00:14:50,076 --> 00:14:51,535 ♪ ("LIVE" BY SELLING THE DRAMA PLAYING) ♪ 334 00:14:51,618 --> 00:14:53,284 ♪ And to love ♪ 335 00:14:53,368 --> 00:14:58,618 ♪ A god and to fear a flame ♪ 336 00:14:58,702 --> 00:15:01,159 -Whoo! -♪ And to burn ♪ 337 00:15:01,243 --> 00:15:04,159 ♪ A crowd that has a name ♪ 338 00:15:06,576 --> 00:15:10,410 ♪ And to right or wrong ♪ 339 00:15:10,493 --> 00:15:14,243 ♪ And to weak or strong ♪ 340 00:15:14,326 --> 00:15:16,326 ♪ It is known ♪ 341 00:15:16,410 --> 00:15:19,201 ♪ Just scream it from the wall ♪ 342 00:15:20,868 --> 00:15:22,743 DAVID: And we ran around just taking it all in, 343 00:15:22,827 --> 00:15:23,952 everybody's fired up. 344 00:15:24,034 --> 00:15:26,535 The music is great. The fans are great. 345 00:15:26,618 --> 00:15:29,785 (PEOPLE CHEERING) 346 00:15:29,868 --> 00:15:32,910 -REPORTER: What band you here to see? -Metallica baby, yeah! 347 00:15:32,993 --> 00:15:35,451 DAVID: My friend Dave wanted to see Metallica. 348 00:15:35,535 --> 00:15:37,493 That was his mission. 349 00:15:37,576 --> 00:15:40,368 And he was keeping a journal the whole weekend. 350 00:15:43,326 --> 00:15:45,159 NARRATOR: "Add Live to the bands seen. 351 00:15:45,243 --> 00:15:48,952 Very good. And Jamiroquai, not good. 352 00:15:49,034 --> 00:15:51,118 I waited for people to get me a coke. 353 00:15:51,201 --> 00:15:53,410 Listened to a horrible set by Andy Dick." 354 00:15:53,493 --> 00:15:55,868 Here's my big fat fucking hit! 355 00:15:55,952 --> 00:15:57,785 NARRATOR: "Also met Mario, 356 00:15:57,868 --> 00:16:00,368 nice guy, but I got the feeling he was beat. 357 00:16:00,451 --> 00:16:03,910 I, on the other hand, am doing okay, but tired. 358 00:16:03,993 --> 00:16:07,243 I think we're going to head back to catch Korn and Bush. 359 00:16:07,326 --> 00:16:08,535 I'll let you know. 360 00:16:08,618 --> 00:16:11,284 Also boob count is too high to keep counting. 361 00:16:11,368 --> 00:16:13,535 I think we're at around 11, or 14." 362 00:16:13,618 --> 00:16:16,743 Make a Woodstock baby, '99! 363 00:16:17,243 --> 00:16:20,910 ♪ (MUSIC STOPS) ♪ 364 00:16:21,576 --> 00:16:24,535 (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 365 00:16:24,618 --> 00:16:25,952 I came here with three guys. 366 00:16:26,034 --> 00:16:27,326 And I didn't remember where the tent was. 367 00:16:27,410 --> 00:16:28,743 I had only been here like an hour. 368 00:16:28,827 --> 00:16:30,910 WOMAN: This section is for anybody 369 00:16:30,993 --> 00:16:32,702 who is lost or is seeking somebody else. 370 00:16:32,785 --> 00:16:34,535 MAN: Hey, I'm looking for a friend of mine. 371 00:16:34,618 --> 00:16:38,576 I brought him here yesterday and lost him, and he's 65. 372 00:16:38,660 --> 00:16:40,535 DAVID: It is crazy to think about it. 373 00:16:40,618 --> 00:16:43,243 Nobody had a cellphone. Like, or if they did, 374 00:16:43,326 --> 00:16:45,535 they were very few and far between. 375 00:16:45,618 --> 00:16:47,785 Back then, you really had no way 376 00:16:47,868 --> 00:16:49,660 of getting in touch with somebody, 377 00:16:49,743 --> 00:16:50,827 finding somebody. 378 00:16:52,118 --> 00:16:58,034 It was massive, so it's not easy to find people if you got lost. 379 00:16:58,118 --> 00:17:00,868 -MAN: Have you got a moment? -(INDISTINCT CHATTER) 380 00:17:00,952 --> 00:17:02,576 -WOMAN 1: We lost her... -WOMAN 2: We lost her... 381 00:17:02,660 --> 00:17:04,827 -...and now, she's found. -...and now, she's found. 382 00:17:05,618 --> 00:17:07,368 I can have fun at Woodstock now. 383 00:17:07,451 --> 00:17:11,451 -(WOMAN 1 CHUCKLES) -(CROWD CHEERING) 384 00:17:13,743 --> 00:17:15,618 ANNOUNCER: Ladies and gentlemen of Woodstock, 385 00:17:15,702 --> 00:17:18,410 a special treat for you all. 386 00:17:18,493 --> 00:17:20,576 The Backstreet Boys! 387 00:17:20,660 --> 00:17:22,743 ♪ ("EVERYBODY" BY BACKSTREET BOYS PLAYING) ♪ 388 00:17:22,827 --> 00:17:25,660 ♪ Backstreet's back all right ♪ 389 00:17:25,743 --> 00:17:28,660 DAVE HOLMES: At MTV, there was like a tug of war 390 00:17:28,743 --> 00:17:30,618 for the TRL charts at the time. 391 00:17:30,702 --> 00:17:32,576 It was the Disney teens 392 00:17:32,660 --> 00:17:35,201 versus the filthy boys in cargo shorts. 393 00:17:35,284 --> 00:17:37,201 And it went that way for a couple of years. 394 00:17:37,284 --> 00:17:39,910 And Woodstock '99 was sort of at, 395 00:17:39,993 --> 00:17:41,243 like, the pinnacle of that. 396 00:17:41,326 --> 00:17:43,076 All right, you guys ready for this? 397 00:17:43,159 --> 00:17:45,660 (CROWD CHEERING) 398 00:17:46,118 --> 00:17:47,159 (GRUNTS) 399 00:17:48,034 --> 00:17:49,993 (GRUNTS) 400 00:17:51,827 --> 00:17:54,702 DAVE HOLMES: 1999 was an interesting time 401 00:17:54,785 --> 00:17:58,576 because the stage was set for something new to happen. 402 00:17:58,660 --> 00:18:03,034 And what did happen was teen pop. 403 00:18:03,118 --> 00:18:06,034 NSYNC and the Backstreet Boys and Britney and Christina 404 00:18:06,118 --> 00:18:09,660 and all of them were, like, at the top of the charts. 405 00:18:09,743 --> 00:18:11,076 And, as a reaction, 406 00:18:11,159 --> 00:18:13,451 there was all this sort of weird, 407 00:18:13,535 --> 00:18:16,702 rap inflected, aggressive rock music. 408 00:18:16,785 --> 00:18:18,284 And now falling out of the number one spot, 409 00:18:18,368 --> 00:18:19,785 back to number three today, here is Korn 410 00:18:19,868 --> 00:18:21,368 -with "Freak on a Leash." -(AUDIENCE CHEERING) 411 00:18:21,451 --> 00:18:23,118 CARSON: In the moment, TRL became 412 00:18:23,201 --> 00:18:25,284 that cultural touch point for teenagers, 413 00:18:25,368 --> 00:18:29,451 it was must-see TV. We had all this inner-genre 414 00:18:29,535 --> 00:18:31,618 of music melding together in an hour 415 00:18:31,702 --> 00:18:32,827 where that would never have happened 416 00:18:32,910 --> 00:18:34,201 even a few years ago. 417 00:18:34,284 --> 00:18:36,284 At the time it felt like it's awesome, 418 00:18:36,368 --> 00:18:38,118 like TRL is a place like the United Nations, 419 00:18:38,201 --> 00:18:39,410 like we all come together, 420 00:18:39,493 --> 00:18:41,451 everybody coexisted sort of magically. 421 00:18:41,535 --> 00:18:43,159 But looking back on it now, 422 00:18:43,243 --> 00:18:46,159 you realize that we were really probably playing with fire. 423 00:18:46,243 --> 00:18:48,910 I'm sick of the (BLEEP) Backstreet Boys on MTV Live. 424 00:18:48,993 --> 00:18:50,159 I'm sick of that (BLEEP). 425 00:18:50,243 --> 00:18:52,785 -You know, it's fucking (BLEEP). -Don't hold back on me. 426 00:18:52,868 --> 00:18:55,535 I'm not holding back. I hate that (BLEEP). 427 00:18:55,618 --> 00:18:57,201 DAVE HOLMES: It was a weird time for MTV 428 00:18:57,284 --> 00:18:58,368 because it seemed like 429 00:18:58,451 --> 00:19:00,868 their reputation changed, their brand changed. 430 00:19:00,952 --> 00:19:02,952 The average viewer, it seemed like, 431 00:19:03,034 --> 00:19:05,159 dropped five years overnight, 432 00:19:05,243 --> 00:19:06,952 where it had once been 433 00:19:07,034 --> 00:19:09,410 kind of a counterculture-y kind of a place, 434 00:19:09,493 --> 00:19:11,493 suddenly it was like, there's Nick Jr. 435 00:19:11,576 --> 00:19:13,159 and Nickelodeon and then MTV. 436 00:19:13,243 --> 00:19:17,410 And Carson definitely got such a combination 437 00:19:17,493 --> 00:19:19,201 of like rage and jealousy 438 00:19:19,284 --> 00:19:21,910 because he was, you know, at the center of it. 439 00:19:21,993 --> 00:19:25,410 So, I've never been more happy to be overshadowed 440 00:19:25,493 --> 00:19:27,243 by someone than I was that weekend. 441 00:19:27,326 --> 00:19:30,368 (CROWD BOOING) 442 00:19:30,451 --> 00:19:32,535 Awesome this right here, 443 00:19:32,618 --> 00:19:35,159 is Woodstock '99 at its finest. 444 00:19:35,243 --> 00:19:38,368 DAVE HOLMES: From the second we got there, 445 00:19:38,451 --> 00:19:40,326 immediately we knew 446 00:19:40,410 --> 00:19:43,535 this is not a crowd that wants us here. At all. 447 00:19:43,618 --> 00:19:44,660 They were mad at us 448 00:19:44,743 --> 00:19:46,118 because we took their MTV away 449 00:19:46,201 --> 00:19:48,243 and gave it to their little sister. 450 00:19:48,326 --> 00:19:50,201 We were in trouble. 451 00:19:50,284 --> 00:19:56,410 ♪ (SOFT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 452 00:19:56,493 --> 00:19:59,493 MOBY: Growing up, Woodstock in 1969 453 00:19:59,576 --> 00:20:04,159 figured more prominently as like a cultural touchstone 454 00:20:04,243 --> 00:20:07,576 than anything else in my life. 455 00:20:07,660 --> 00:20:10,243 I can't think of anything else that even competed 456 00:20:10,326 --> 00:20:11,618 with Woodstock 457 00:20:11,702 --> 00:20:17,993 for cultural significance in the '70s, into the '80s, 458 00:20:18,076 --> 00:20:22,535 which is why when I got asked to perform in '99, 459 00:20:22,618 --> 00:20:23,660 I jumped at the chance 460 00:20:23,743 --> 00:20:26,827 because it was just such an iconic name. 461 00:20:28,201 --> 00:20:31,868 I mean, you think of everybody who performed 462 00:20:31,952 --> 00:20:34,743 and like the number of times I've like watched the movies 463 00:20:34,827 --> 00:20:37,576 and listened to the soundtrack recording, 464 00:20:37,660 --> 00:20:40,576 and you realized it made it seem even more magical, 465 00:20:40,660 --> 00:20:42,535 like that it happened at all. 466 00:20:42,618 --> 00:20:45,368 Like, everything that could have gone wrong went wrong. 467 00:20:46,410 --> 00:20:48,576 But somehow it worked... 468 00:20:49,868 --> 00:20:53,618 like it was as idyllic and utopian 469 00:20:53,702 --> 00:20:56,284 as a gathering of 500,000 or more people 470 00:20:56,368 --> 00:20:58,326 has ever been in human history. 471 00:20:58,410 --> 00:21:00,284 And I know that sounds like an exaggeration, 472 00:21:00,368 --> 00:21:01,618 but it really isn't. 473 00:21:01,702 --> 00:21:04,243 (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 474 00:21:09,493 --> 00:21:11,785 CAMERA MAN: 475 00:21:11,868 --> 00:21:13,785 MOBY: Problem was, 476 00:21:13,868 --> 00:21:17,159 see there's a little expression of ATD, attention to detail. 477 00:21:17,243 --> 00:21:19,159 My name wasn't on the piece of plywood. 478 00:21:19,243 --> 00:21:20,451 And there's this little piece of plywood 479 00:21:20,535 --> 00:21:22,076 that welcomes you when you come in. 480 00:21:22,159 --> 00:21:23,368 -CAMERA MAN: And all the artists signed-- -And all the artists' names 481 00:21:23,451 --> 00:21:24,618 are on the piece of plywood and my name 482 00:21:24,702 --> 00:21:26,159 wasn't on the piece of plywood and I... 483 00:21:26,243 --> 00:21:27,243 (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 484 00:21:27,326 --> 00:21:28,952 MOBY: Who's ever even heard of these bands? 485 00:21:29,034 --> 00:21:30,159 MAN: All have been slashed-- 486 00:21:30,243 --> 00:21:31,493 Okay, let's find bands we've never even heard of. 487 00:21:31,576 --> 00:21:34,618 Spitfire, Our Lady Peace, The Umbilical Brothers. 488 00:21:35,702 --> 00:21:37,118 What's that one that starts with an "O?" 489 00:21:37,201 --> 00:21:40,118 Buckcherry. Oleander. Buckcherry. 490 00:21:40,201 --> 00:21:42,284 MOBY: I remember. I looked at the lineup 491 00:21:42,368 --> 00:21:44,326 and I was like, "What is this?" 492 00:21:44,410 --> 00:21:46,326 like, "How did this happen? 493 00:21:46,410 --> 00:21:48,702 How is this called Woodstock?" 494 00:21:48,785 --> 00:21:50,201 It would have made so much more sense 495 00:21:50,284 --> 00:21:51,618 if it had been called like, 496 00:21:51,702 --> 00:21:55,743 Army Base Rock '99, featuring Limp Bizkit. 497 00:21:55,827 --> 00:21:58,952 ♪ (SOFT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 498 00:21:59,034 --> 00:22:02,243 MOBY: There is a sixth sense that you develop 499 00:22:02,326 --> 00:22:03,493 when you spend your life, like, 500 00:22:03,576 --> 00:22:05,535 going to nightclubs, going to venues. 501 00:22:05,618 --> 00:22:08,368 Like, I can tell you a hundred feet away 502 00:22:08,451 --> 00:22:10,743 what the energy in that venue is gonna be like. 503 00:22:10,827 --> 00:22:14,201 You develop it after decades of being around venues. 504 00:22:14,284 --> 00:22:16,410 We got off the bus and I was like, 505 00:22:16,493 --> 00:22:20,118 "Something's not right," and this was the first day. 506 00:22:20,201 --> 00:22:21,702 And I was just like, something... 507 00:22:21,785 --> 00:22:23,034 You could just tell. 508 00:22:23,118 --> 00:22:26,118 And, like, I started walking through the crowd, 509 00:22:26,201 --> 00:22:30,159 and like everybody was angry, and everybody was hot, 510 00:22:30,243 --> 00:22:31,952 and everybody was complaining. 511 00:22:32,034 --> 00:22:34,868 and it had only been open for six hours. 512 00:22:34,952 --> 00:22:37,368 And it was already off the rails. 513 00:22:37,451 --> 00:22:38,535 (CROWD CHEERING) 514 00:22:38,618 --> 00:22:41,702 MAN: I need everybody who can see me 515 00:22:41,785 --> 00:22:44,743 to put your motherfucking "X"s in the air. 516 00:22:47,368 --> 00:22:49,201 DMX: Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. 517 00:22:49,284 --> 00:22:51,660 Woodstock, where you at? 518 00:22:53,785 --> 00:22:55,785 Where ya at? 519 00:22:58,952 --> 00:23:02,993 TARIQ: DMX, at that time, he was, you know, very much 520 00:23:03,076 --> 00:23:06,410 -a man of the people. -Is it on? 521 00:23:06,493 --> 00:23:08,076 (CROWD CHEERING) 522 00:23:08,159 --> 00:23:10,952 Is it on? 523 00:23:11,827 --> 00:23:13,368 TARIQ: So I think he had a persona 524 00:23:13,451 --> 00:23:15,702 that was very accessible. 525 00:23:15,785 --> 00:23:19,576 His performance at Woodstock was unparalleled. 526 00:23:19,660 --> 00:23:23,034 I mean, I feel like he's a man possessed in front of, you know, 527 00:23:23,118 --> 00:23:24,785 hundreds of thousands of people and, 528 00:23:24,868 --> 00:23:26,243 I mean, that stage was huge. 529 00:23:26,326 --> 00:23:28,576 You know, the fact that he was able to sort of navigate 530 00:23:28,660 --> 00:23:30,785 and to own it, I think it speaks 531 00:23:30,868 --> 00:23:34,284 to what the moment meant for him. 532 00:23:34,368 --> 00:23:39,785 -Oh-ho! Oh-ho! -CROWD: Oh-ho! Oh-ho! 533 00:23:39,868 --> 00:23:41,451 WESLEY: It's call-and-response, right? 534 00:23:41,535 --> 00:23:44,868 This is a classic, Black gospel way 535 00:23:44,952 --> 00:23:47,618 of communicating in music form. 536 00:23:47,702 --> 00:23:49,159 The preacher says something 537 00:23:49,243 --> 00:23:51,368 the congregation knows what to say in response. 538 00:23:51,451 --> 00:23:52,493 ♪ ("MY NIGGAS" BY DMX PLAYING) ♪ 539 00:23:52,576 --> 00:23:55,034 ♪ You won't take this From me, baby ♪ 540 00:23:55,118 --> 00:23:59,368 ♪ You will not take this From me, baby ♪ 541 00:23:59,451 --> 00:24:02,660 ♪ Come on, come on, come on My niggas ♪ 542 00:24:02,743 --> 00:24:04,243 ♪ Some niggas That you don't wanna try ♪ 543 00:24:04,326 --> 00:24:07,284 -♪ My niggas ♪ -♪ Some niggas That's really do or die ♪ 544 00:24:07,368 --> 00:24:09,785 -♪ My niggas ♪ -♪ Will have you cowards Ready to cry ♪ 545 00:24:09,868 --> 00:24:11,243 -♪ My niggas ♪ -♪ Will fry ♪ 546 00:24:11,326 --> 00:24:12,952 -♪ My niggas ♪ -♪ Will Rob ♪ 547 00:24:13,034 --> 00:24:14,326 WESLEY: You could hear it. 548 00:24:14,410 --> 00:24:15,868 You can hear thousands of people. 549 00:24:15,952 --> 00:24:18,660 He says it, and it comes back at him 550 00:24:18,743 --> 00:24:20,076 at twice the intensity. 551 00:24:20,159 --> 00:24:21,702 -♪ My niggas ♪ -♪ Is God ♪ 552 00:24:21,785 --> 00:24:23,284 -♪ My niggas ♪ -♪ Will shine ♪ 553 00:24:23,368 --> 00:24:25,785 WESLEY: And what's so chilling about it is 554 00:24:25,868 --> 00:24:27,493 they were ready to do it! 555 00:24:27,576 --> 00:24:30,827 They were like hoping that he would do this song. 556 00:24:30,910 --> 00:24:32,618 -♪ My niggas, my niggas ♪ -♪ Is fine ♪ 557 00:24:32,702 --> 00:24:35,493 WESLEY: You have to understand this sort of thing 558 00:24:35,576 --> 00:24:39,326 wasn't happening on a regular basis in 1999. 559 00:24:39,410 --> 00:24:42,326 There weren't a lot of occasions for Black rappers 560 00:24:42,410 --> 00:24:46,660 to command a crowd exclusively almost of white people, 561 00:24:46,743 --> 00:24:49,993 where the Black performer is essentially licensing 562 00:24:50,076 --> 00:24:53,910 the people in the crowd to say this word with him. 563 00:24:54,034 --> 00:24:55,535 -♪ Is dogs ♪ -♪ My nigga ♪ 564 00:24:55,618 --> 00:24:58,243 (CROWD CHEERING) 565 00:24:58,326 --> 00:24:59,535 DMX: Where you at, baby? 566 00:24:59,618 --> 00:25:02,201 WESLEY: To perform a thing that they don't believe. 567 00:25:02,284 --> 00:25:04,868 Or maybe they do believe it, but if you were to ask them 568 00:25:04,952 --> 00:25:08,159 what they believe, if you got each one of these guys 569 00:25:08,243 --> 00:25:10,076 after the show and pulled each one of them show aside 570 00:25:10,159 --> 00:25:12,910 and say, "Is it okay to say the N-word 571 00:25:12,993 --> 00:25:14,535 under any circumstances?" 572 00:25:14,618 --> 00:25:17,326 They would, to a person, say, 573 00:25:17,410 --> 00:25:19,952 "I mean the right answer is no. Right?" 574 00:25:20,034 --> 00:25:23,868 ♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 575 00:25:23,952 --> 00:25:26,535 WESLEY: And so I'm wondering, what is it like 576 00:25:26,618 --> 00:25:28,868 for the other Black people in a moment like this. 577 00:25:28,952 --> 00:25:30,368 What are they thinking? 578 00:25:30,451 --> 00:25:31,660 If they went with friends 579 00:25:31,743 --> 00:25:33,910 who they didn't think were N-word sayers 580 00:25:33,993 --> 00:25:35,451 under any circumstances, 581 00:25:35,535 --> 00:25:37,868 what were those friendships like? What happened? 582 00:25:37,952 --> 00:25:39,743 I mean, what was the racial dynamic 583 00:25:39,827 --> 00:25:42,743 for the few non-white people who were there? 584 00:25:42,827 --> 00:25:45,576 And imagine being a non-white woman, 585 00:25:45,660 --> 00:25:47,493 what that experience was like for you. 586 00:25:47,576 --> 00:25:51,451 (CROWD CHEERING) 587 00:25:51,535 --> 00:25:55,076 ANNOUNCER: Rosie Perez! 588 00:25:55,159 --> 00:25:58,034 (CROWD CHEERING) 589 00:26:07,993 --> 00:26:09,410 Aw, come on now. 590 00:26:09,493 --> 00:26:11,993 How are y'all feeling out there? 591 00:26:12,535 --> 00:26:14,493 (CROWD CHEERING) 592 00:26:14,910 --> 00:26:15,952 So... 593 00:26:16,910 --> 00:26:18,243 CROWD: 594 00:26:18,326 --> 00:26:20,535 I ain't showing you all shit! 595 00:26:21,284 --> 00:26:24,535 (CROWD BOOING) 596 00:26:24,952 --> 00:26:25,952 All right. 597 00:26:26,034 --> 00:26:27,785 MAUREEN: There was a local radio station 598 00:26:27,868 --> 00:26:31,118 that rolled in with a little trailer 599 00:26:31,201 --> 00:26:34,118 and they had two naked girls or topless girls on top, 600 00:26:34,201 --> 00:26:37,785 so it had this anachronistic, like Girls Gone Wild vibe. 601 00:26:37,868 --> 00:26:39,993 (CROWD CHEERING) 602 00:26:40,076 --> 00:26:42,118 DAVE MATTHEWS: Sometimes there's an abundance of things, 603 00:26:42,201 --> 00:26:45,243 and sometimes there's a lack. 604 00:26:45,326 --> 00:26:48,576 Today, there's an abundance of titties. 605 00:26:51,910 --> 00:26:54,868 MAUREEN: If you look back, the Girls Gone Wild cohort 606 00:26:54,952 --> 00:26:59,034 was a sort of reaction to the first part of the decade. 607 00:26:59,118 --> 00:27:01,159 It was like "Girls, like, no. Know your place. 608 00:27:01,243 --> 00:27:02,326 You're sex objects 609 00:27:02,410 --> 00:27:05,159 and you're supposed to be pretty and shut up." 610 00:27:05,243 --> 00:27:07,618 LIZ: I think that there's a generation of girls 611 00:27:07,702 --> 00:27:09,827 that were brought up looking at Girls Gone Wild 612 00:27:09,910 --> 00:27:12,785 and thinking "Wow, this is what I'm supposed to be doing. 613 00:27:12,868 --> 00:27:17,034 This is how real girls get men." 614 00:27:17,118 --> 00:27:19,243 MAUREEN: There was just a feeling of, 615 00:27:19,326 --> 00:27:22,159 "Let's put these girls back where they belong, 616 00:27:22,243 --> 00:27:24,326 in their cages, in their boxes 617 00:27:24,410 --> 00:27:26,868 and let's show everyone who's boss." 618 00:27:26,952 --> 00:27:28,993 ♪ (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 619 00:27:29,076 --> 00:27:30,827 STEVEN: When you watch the pay-per-view 620 00:27:30,910 --> 00:27:32,368 of Woodstock '99, 621 00:27:32,451 --> 00:27:34,660 it's pretty clear that the cameramen 622 00:27:34,743 --> 00:27:38,326 are seeking out as much female nudity as possible. 623 00:27:38,410 --> 00:27:41,618 Okay, I think you've looked at the breasts long enough now, 624 00:27:41,702 --> 00:27:43,410 can you just move along now? 625 00:27:44,243 --> 00:27:45,702 STEVEN: And, it just seems like, 626 00:27:45,785 --> 00:27:47,451 if you're selling this pay-per-view 627 00:27:47,535 --> 00:27:50,702 to a young audience that's part of what you're selling. 628 00:27:50,785 --> 00:27:54,368 So the degree to which exploitation of women 629 00:27:54,451 --> 00:27:58,118 was not only excused but formalized 630 00:27:58,201 --> 00:28:00,410 and made part of the business plan 631 00:28:00,493 --> 00:28:03,660 of Woodstock '99, that certainly created an environment 632 00:28:03,743 --> 00:28:06,284 where people felt that exploiting women, 633 00:28:06,368 --> 00:28:09,993 abusing women, hurting women, was gonna be okay. 634 00:28:10,076 --> 00:28:11,076 And you could get away with it 635 00:28:11,159 --> 00:28:13,243 if that's something you wanted to do. 636 00:28:13,326 --> 00:28:17,952 WESLEY: In 1999, we were still dealing with the fallout 637 00:28:18,034 --> 00:28:20,410 from the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal, 638 00:28:20,493 --> 00:28:24,660 where Bill Clinton drove a truck over her in trying to wiggle out 639 00:28:24,743 --> 00:28:28,076 of what had actually happened. She was disposable essentially. 640 00:28:28,159 --> 00:28:30,410 I mean, we were disposing of women 641 00:28:30,493 --> 00:28:32,368 left and right at that point. 642 00:28:32,451 --> 00:28:34,576 So you've got your Maxim subscription. 643 00:28:34,660 --> 00:28:37,243 FHM. You've got Girls Gone Wild. 644 00:28:37,326 --> 00:28:40,410 And it just feels like women are basically there 645 00:28:40,493 --> 00:28:42,660 to just be sexy for men. 646 00:28:42,743 --> 00:28:44,743 (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 647 00:28:44,827 --> 00:28:47,243 It's only fair, you know, they're gonna do it to us. 648 00:28:47,326 --> 00:28:49,159 It's only fair. That's right. 649 00:28:49,243 --> 00:28:52,159 (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 650 00:28:52,243 --> 00:28:54,368 JOHN: Unlike '94, 651 00:28:54,451 --> 00:28:58,827 there were so many naked women walking in the fields, 652 00:28:58,910 --> 00:29:01,535 that you couldn't count it. 653 00:29:01,618 --> 00:29:05,326 MAN: I think we've pretty much taken over Woodstock '99, so. 654 00:29:06,993 --> 00:29:09,159 It was the most promiscuous 655 00:29:09,827 --> 00:29:11,993 of my lifetime, you know. 656 00:29:12,076 --> 00:29:15,785 I don't see shows with naked women running around, 657 00:29:15,868 --> 00:29:17,118 you know, anymore. 658 00:29:17,201 --> 00:29:20,576 -Woodstock '99! -Woodstock '99! 659 00:29:20,660 --> 00:29:22,493 (SCREAMS) 660 00:29:22,576 --> 00:29:24,827 JOHN: And, you know, you gotta think 661 00:29:24,910 --> 00:29:25,993 you probably got an audience 662 00:29:26,076 --> 00:29:28,868 of an average age in their early 20s. 663 00:29:28,952 --> 00:29:33,451 Guys in their early 20s tend to be horny 24 hours a day. 664 00:29:33,535 --> 00:29:34,618 (CROWD CHEERING) 665 00:29:34,702 --> 00:29:39,451 Because of this MTV spring break feeling in the air, 666 00:29:39,535 --> 00:29:42,743 you know, there was some people who were disrespectful. 667 00:29:44,410 --> 00:29:47,368 Five-year plan! Oh, I will be back again. 668 00:29:47,451 --> 00:29:50,827 JONATHAN DAVIS: There was a definite hyper sexuality to that time. 669 00:29:50,910 --> 00:29:54,618 Girls Gone Wild, porn was in the mainstream, 670 00:29:54,702 --> 00:29:57,827 but that isn't an excuse for some dipshit 671 00:29:57,910 --> 00:30:00,743 to grab a girl's titty when she's coming up over the pit. 672 00:30:02,576 --> 00:30:03,660 No artist wants that, 673 00:30:03,743 --> 00:30:05,576 no one sits there and goes, "Oh, look at that." 674 00:30:05,660 --> 00:30:08,201 It's disgusting. It's not cool. 675 00:30:08,284 --> 00:30:09,660 And then that's when you get pissed 676 00:30:09,743 --> 00:30:11,993 that you'll call out a fan, that can beat that guy's ass. 677 00:30:12,076 --> 00:30:14,201 I'll get in trouble and sued for it, 678 00:30:14,284 --> 00:30:15,952 beat that motherfucker's ass right there. 679 00:30:16,034 --> 00:30:19,576 -"You. You just did that." -(CROWD CHEERING) 680 00:30:22,368 --> 00:30:24,159 All right, thanks a lot! 681 00:30:24,243 --> 00:30:26,326 Hey, are you guys having a good time? 682 00:30:26,410 --> 00:30:29,284 -(CROWD CHEERING) -DEXTER HOLLAND: All right! 683 00:30:29,368 --> 00:30:31,868 Goddamn it, I'm having a good time. 684 00:30:31,952 --> 00:30:33,326 But you know what, I was noticing something 685 00:30:33,410 --> 00:30:35,660 I gotta call your guys attention to here for just a second. 686 00:30:35,743 --> 00:30:37,243 I've been noticing that there's a lot of girls 687 00:30:37,326 --> 00:30:39,785 coming over to the top here, crowd surfing, 688 00:30:39,868 --> 00:30:41,368 and they're getting really groped, 689 00:30:41,451 --> 00:30:42,660 you know what I mean? 690 00:30:44,118 --> 00:30:46,034 Now I think just 'cause a girl 691 00:30:46,118 --> 00:30:47,827 wants to go crowd surfing or whatever, 692 00:30:47,910 --> 00:30:50,201 that doesn't give a guy the right to molest them, 693 00:30:50,284 --> 00:30:53,993 -you know what I'm saying? -(CROWD CHEERING) 694 00:30:54,076 --> 00:30:56,493 So if you're a guy and you see a girl passing overhead, 695 00:30:56,576 --> 00:30:59,618 give her a break, all right, you know what I'm saying? 696 00:30:59,702 --> 00:31:02,993 And if you're a girl and you see a guy passing overhead, 697 00:31:03,076 --> 00:31:05,576 I want you to grab his fucking balls! 698 00:31:05,660 --> 00:31:07,702 (CROWD CHEERING) 699 00:31:07,785 --> 00:31:09,743 ♪ ("SELF ESTEEM" BY THE OFFSPRING PLAYING) ♪ 700 00:31:09,827 --> 00:31:13,993 ♪ La, la, la, la, la ♪ 701 00:31:14,702 --> 00:31:16,535 NARRATOR: "Friday, July 23rd. 702 00:31:16,618 --> 00:31:18,743 Caught the tail end of Offspring. 703 00:31:18,827 --> 00:31:20,368 More naked boobs. 704 00:31:20,451 --> 00:31:21,993 It's kind of getting old. 705 00:31:22,660 --> 00:31:26,034 Outlook for a shower, not good. 706 00:31:26,118 --> 00:31:28,827 Tomorrow's goal get on the Woodstock video 707 00:31:28,910 --> 00:31:30,410 by being in the Metallica pit." 708 00:31:30,493 --> 00:31:31,743 DEXTER: All right, now do me a favor 709 00:31:31,827 --> 00:31:33,284 and sing along to this one, all right? 710 00:31:33,368 --> 00:31:35,076 NARRATOR: "Rock on!" 711 00:31:35,159 --> 00:31:38,743 ♪ I wrote her off For the tenth time today ♪ 712 00:31:38,827 --> 00:31:39,827 DEXTER: We are on the first day 713 00:31:39,910 --> 00:31:42,034 and it wasn't even quite nighttime yet. 714 00:31:42,118 --> 00:31:45,660 And, I mean, I like rowdy shows like that's a lot of the fun 715 00:31:45,743 --> 00:31:47,201 is the energy of the crowd and stuff, 716 00:31:47,284 --> 00:31:49,743 and you could feel something bubbling 717 00:31:49,827 --> 00:31:51,451 I can't quite put my finger on it, but-- 718 00:31:51,535 --> 00:31:53,618 NOODLES: It was all the shit being thrown up on stage. (CHUCKLES) 719 00:31:53,702 --> 00:31:55,743 -DEXTER: Oh, yeah, that kinda-- -And I don't think we even asked 720 00:31:55,827 --> 00:31:56,952 -for it, I mean-- -That's a tip-off. 721 00:31:57,034 --> 00:32:00,576 ♪ That's okay, man, 'Cause I like the abuse ♪ 722 00:32:00,660 --> 00:32:04,910 ♪ I know she's playing with me ♪ 723 00:32:04,993 --> 00:32:07,785 ♪ That's okay 'cause I got No self-esteem ♪ 724 00:32:07,868 --> 00:32:10,201 It really seemed like in pop culture, 725 00:32:10,284 --> 00:32:13,785 there's this dark energy coming from young white males 726 00:32:13,868 --> 00:32:17,868 that entertainment is both catering to and perpetuating. 727 00:32:17,952 --> 00:32:19,284 TYLER DURDEN: We've all been raised on television 728 00:32:19,368 --> 00:32:21,535 to believe that one day we'd be all millionaires, 729 00:32:21,618 --> 00:32:25,034 and movie gods, and rock stars but we won't. 730 00:32:26,326 --> 00:32:27,868 We're slowly learning that fact. 731 00:32:29,284 --> 00:32:32,201 And we're very, very pissed off. 732 00:32:32,284 --> 00:32:33,993 DAVE HOLMES: At the end of the millennium, 733 00:32:34,076 --> 00:32:38,076 a lot of movies marketed toward young people with anger 734 00:32:38,159 --> 00:32:40,827 and with what is sexual assault. 735 00:32:40,910 --> 00:32:42,410 And we thought nothing of it at the time. 736 00:32:42,493 --> 00:32:44,702 It was boys and girls alike 737 00:32:44,785 --> 00:32:46,743 clapped at the end of the movie, and that was that. 738 00:32:48,076 --> 00:32:49,785 MAUREEN: You know, you've got this festival 739 00:32:49,868 --> 00:32:52,952 that's supposed to be espousing countercultural, 740 00:32:53,034 --> 00:32:57,660 loftier ideals when the '90s were anything but that. 741 00:32:57,743 --> 00:33:02,785 So why attempt to manufacture nostalgia for Woodstock '69, 742 00:33:02,868 --> 00:33:05,410 an event that none of these kids were alive for? 743 00:33:05,493 --> 00:33:09,702 (CROWD CHEERING) 744 00:33:09,785 --> 00:33:12,576 WYCLEF JEAN: Hold on. 745 00:33:12,660 --> 00:33:17,451 -♪ (GUITAR PLAYING) ♪ -(CROWD CHEERING) 746 00:33:36,785 --> 00:33:38,535 ROB SHEFIELD: A theme through the festival 747 00:33:38,618 --> 00:33:40,368 was that artists kept making echoes 748 00:33:40,451 --> 00:33:42,952 about the original festival that were completely lost 749 00:33:43,034 --> 00:33:44,451 on those that were there. 750 00:33:44,535 --> 00:33:46,451 Pat, who played the "Star Spangled Banner" 751 00:33:46,535 --> 00:33:48,076 at the original Woodstock? 752 00:33:49,410 --> 00:33:51,243 -I can't remember. -Come on, man, 753 00:33:51,326 --> 00:33:53,118 you gotta work with me here. Try. 754 00:33:54,076 --> 00:33:56,243 Shit, is the name Jerry? 755 00:33:56,326 --> 00:33:58,785 ROB: Woodstock was something that was talked about 756 00:33:58,868 --> 00:34:02,034 but not really like a part of '90s rock culture. 757 00:34:02,118 --> 00:34:04,243 And '90s rock culture was booming in a way that made 758 00:34:04,326 --> 00:34:08,076 '60s rock culture seemed trivial and outdated in a lot of ways. 759 00:34:08,159 --> 00:34:10,451 -BUSH: Give me an F. -CROWD: F! 760 00:34:10,535 --> 00:34:12,743 -BUSH: Give me a U. Give me a... -CROWD: U! 761 00:34:12,827 --> 00:34:15,076 ROB: And then when Bush led the crowd 762 00:34:15,159 --> 00:34:17,785 in a F-U-C-K cheer, you know, 763 00:34:17,868 --> 00:34:20,034 that had gotten Country Joe and the Fish 764 00:34:20,118 --> 00:34:22,952 in so much trouble back 30 years earlier, 765 00:34:23,034 --> 00:34:25,785 absolutely nobody in the crowd got that joke 766 00:34:25,868 --> 00:34:28,326 or understood why it was supposed to be amusing. 767 00:34:58,034 --> 00:35:00,159 ♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 768 00:35:00,243 --> 00:35:02,785 ROB: So, you know, it's interesting, 769 00:35:02,868 --> 00:35:05,284 going back to the way Nirvana on Nevermind 770 00:35:05,368 --> 00:35:06,785 with their little parody of, you know, 771 00:35:06,868 --> 00:35:09,618 "Everybody get together, try to love one another right now." 772 00:35:09,702 --> 00:35:11,785 ♪ Everybody get together ♪ 773 00:35:11,868 --> 00:35:16,034 ♪ Try to love One another right now ♪ 774 00:35:16,118 --> 00:35:18,993 ROB: For the crowd that was at Woodstock '99, 775 00:35:19,076 --> 00:35:21,410 the idea of Nirvana and Pearl Jam was as outdated 776 00:35:21,493 --> 00:35:24,410 as seeing Creedence Clearwater Revival or the Grateful Dead. 777 00:35:24,493 --> 00:35:26,910 You know, it was not something that was really in sync 778 00:35:26,993 --> 00:35:30,326 with the kids who were there to see Korn and Limp Bizkit. 779 00:35:30,410 --> 00:35:32,868 (CROW CHEERING) 780 00:35:32,952 --> 00:35:36,618 ♪ ("BLIND" BY KORN PLAYING) ♪ 781 00:35:39,243 --> 00:35:42,118 ♪ Are you ready? ♪ 782 00:36:03,910 --> 00:36:08,702 ♪ This place inside my mind A place I like to hide ♪ 783 00:36:08,785 --> 00:36:11,576 ♪ You don't know the chances ♪ 784 00:36:11,660 --> 00:36:14,868 -♪ What if I should die? ♪ -♪ A place inside my... ♪ 785 00:36:14,952 --> 00:36:17,159 JONATHAN: I can't even put it into words what I was feeling. 786 00:36:17,243 --> 00:36:19,535 I'm feeling numb. I don't feel anything. 787 00:36:19,618 --> 00:36:22,451 I'm just like in the zone, like, "Oh my God, 788 00:36:22,535 --> 00:36:24,702 okay, I gotta go out there and kill this." 789 00:36:24,785 --> 00:36:27,576 And I know for a fact they're not all Korn fans, 790 00:36:27,660 --> 00:36:29,535 so I gotta win these fuckers over. 791 00:36:29,618 --> 00:36:31,868 (VOCALIZING) 792 00:36:31,952 --> 00:36:33,326 JONATHAN: The crowd was so big that they had 793 00:36:33,410 --> 00:36:36,201 three sets of PAs set up and they were time aligned, 794 00:36:36,284 --> 00:36:37,702 but you could see how sound travels 795 00:36:37,785 --> 00:36:39,952 'cause they would jump in time so that the crowd 796 00:36:40,034 --> 00:36:41,535 would do this wave effect. 797 00:36:41,618 --> 00:36:45,660 After that, I was like, "Fuck, I don't have-- I left my body." 798 00:36:45,743 --> 00:36:48,284 I can't tell you what the fuck happened after that. 799 00:36:49,660 --> 00:36:54,284 -Come on, Woodstock! -(CROWD CHEERING) 800 00:36:54,368 --> 00:36:55,743 ♪ (ROCK MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 801 00:36:55,827 --> 00:36:59,410 JONATHAN: I just went as hard and as intense as I could go 802 00:36:59,493 --> 00:37:02,576 and still sing, but it was so fucking hot, 803 00:37:02,660 --> 00:37:04,576 I literally collapsed after the last song. 804 00:37:04,660 --> 00:37:07,243 I walked backstage, and I fell on the ground. 805 00:37:07,326 --> 00:37:08,702 They put bags of ice all over me 806 00:37:08,785 --> 00:37:10,743 and ran IVs and put me on oxygen. 807 00:37:10,827 --> 00:37:13,034 I was that-- I was gone. 808 00:37:13,118 --> 00:37:17,743 ♪ (SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 809 00:37:17,827 --> 00:37:20,660 BEN: My only goal is to be front row for Korn, 810 00:37:20,743 --> 00:37:22,660 so I fought my way through and I remember 811 00:37:22,743 --> 00:37:24,827 thinking to myself, "Wow there's probably 812 00:37:24,910 --> 00:37:26,535 50,000 people behind me." 813 00:37:26,618 --> 00:37:30,952 (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 814 00:37:31,034 --> 00:37:32,326 BEN: And then during the concert, 815 00:37:32,410 --> 00:37:33,952 I started feeling a little funny. 816 00:37:34,034 --> 00:37:36,702 I was cold and I thought to myself, 817 00:37:36,785 --> 00:37:39,201 "It's gotta be 110 degrees out here. 818 00:37:39,284 --> 00:37:40,535 Why am I cold?" 819 00:37:40,618 --> 00:37:44,660 And it dawned on me like, "Wow, I think have hypothermia." 820 00:37:44,743 --> 00:37:46,952 My body's never felt this way before 821 00:37:47,034 --> 00:37:49,743 and I said, "I think I'm in trouble." (CHUCKLES) 822 00:37:49,827 --> 00:37:52,493 ♪ (SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 823 00:37:52,576 --> 00:37:54,326 DAVE HOLMES: I was very near the stage 824 00:37:54,410 --> 00:37:57,993 and like person after person was like pulled out of the pit. 825 00:37:58,076 --> 00:38:02,493 ♪ (SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 826 00:38:04,326 --> 00:38:06,827 DAVE KONIG: I worked Hurricane Katrina 827 00:38:06,910 --> 00:38:08,159 and Hurricane Rita 828 00:38:08,243 --> 00:38:11,034 and Hurricane Sandy but whenever people ask me 829 00:38:11,118 --> 00:38:13,243 about Woodstock '99, I always say 830 00:38:13,326 --> 00:38:16,535 that it was the greatest disaster I ever went to. 831 00:38:17,743 --> 00:38:20,660 For any event like this, environmental concerns 832 00:38:20,743 --> 00:38:22,993 are gonna definitely be at the forefront, 833 00:38:23,076 --> 00:38:25,993 and the heat was absolutely atrocious. 834 00:38:26,076 --> 00:38:28,410 So you had to worry about heat stroke, 835 00:38:28,493 --> 00:38:31,159 heat exhaustion, hyperthermia. 836 00:38:31,243 --> 00:38:34,785 We need to make sure that people are staying hydrated. 837 00:38:34,868 --> 00:38:37,660 Everybody that was there was like packed together. 838 00:38:37,743 --> 00:38:39,993 And bodies generate heat 839 00:38:40,076 --> 00:38:41,702 then other bodies right next to it 840 00:38:41,785 --> 00:38:43,118 are absorbing that heat. 841 00:38:43,201 --> 00:38:46,368 And then they have these huge runways made of asphalt. 842 00:38:46,451 --> 00:38:49,576 It definitely added to increased ground temperatures. 843 00:38:50,660 --> 00:38:51,868 Every single night, 844 00:38:51,952 --> 00:38:54,159 we were doing like a thousand transports 845 00:38:54,243 --> 00:38:56,368 and a lot of them were just dehydrations 846 00:38:56,451 --> 00:38:58,910 because people didn't have enough water that day. 847 00:39:00,827 --> 00:39:03,535 I would say 90 percent of the cases that we saw 848 00:39:03,618 --> 00:39:09,159 were caused by the environment and the lack of access to water. 849 00:39:09,243 --> 00:39:10,785 REPORTER: The one thing I would say is, 850 00:39:10,868 --> 00:39:13,660 if you don't like heat, don't come to Woodstock '99. 851 00:39:13,743 --> 00:39:15,201 It is hot. 852 00:39:15,284 --> 00:39:20,159 Please don't come unless you are prepared to be baked. 853 00:39:20,243 --> 00:39:22,660 -WOMAN: Anything else? -MAN: Okay. Another refreshment coming. 854 00:39:22,743 --> 00:39:24,284 NICK: Everything was pretty highly regulated 855 00:39:24,368 --> 00:39:26,159 with the vendors all the water had to be sold 856 00:39:26,243 --> 00:39:28,118 for four dollars a bottle, 857 00:39:28,201 --> 00:39:30,576 which, you know, even now 20 years later 858 00:39:30,660 --> 00:39:32,493 -is a ridiculous cost. -(INDISTINCT CHATTER) 859 00:39:32,576 --> 00:39:34,284 BEN: I couldn't believe that bottles of water 860 00:39:34,368 --> 00:39:35,868 were four dollars. I wasn't prepared 861 00:39:35,952 --> 00:39:37,993 to pay four dollars for water. 862 00:39:38,076 --> 00:39:40,660 DAVE: When the beer is the same price of water, 863 00:39:40,743 --> 00:39:44,118 as a kid if, if I had a choice, I would choose the beer, too. 864 00:39:44,201 --> 00:39:46,076 And then on top of that, the alcohol is actually 865 00:39:46,159 --> 00:39:47,576 dehydrating you further. 866 00:39:47,660 --> 00:39:49,576 -(INDISTINCT CHATTER) -MAUREEN: There were accounts 867 00:39:49,660 --> 00:39:52,743 that security guards in searching kids 868 00:39:52,827 --> 00:39:56,243 before they came in were told, "Under no means 869 00:39:56,326 --> 00:39:58,159 let them come in with their own food, 870 00:39:58,243 --> 00:39:59,368 their own water." 871 00:39:59,451 --> 00:40:02,576 But when it came to drugs, the guards were happy 872 00:40:02,660 --> 00:40:05,952 to take a 20 or a 50 to look the other way. 873 00:40:08,326 --> 00:40:11,118 JAKE HAFNER: In 1999, I was 23 years old, 874 00:40:11,201 --> 00:40:13,618 and a good friend of mine called me up one day 875 00:40:13,702 --> 00:40:16,827 and asked me if I wanted to work security 876 00:40:16,910 --> 00:40:19,034 at Woodstock '99. 877 00:40:19,118 --> 00:40:22,743 JOHN: The security was hard to hire. They're a lot of them. 878 00:40:22,827 --> 00:40:24,576 And we had to get licensed ones, 879 00:40:24,660 --> 00:40:27,410 which, you know, was not that easy. 880 00:40:27,493 --> 00:40:29,910 JAKE: They had a three-hour class I had to take 881 00:40:29,993 --> 00:40:32,535 and the instructor basically spent 882 00:40:32,618 --> 00:40:34,326 the last two hours of the class 883 00:40:34,410 --> 00:40:37,243 going through the test question by question, 884 00:40:37,326 --> 00:40:39,535 giving the answer and then at the end of that, 885 00:40:39,618 --> 00:40:42,118 then he handed out the test and we took it. 886 00:40:42,201 --> 00:40:45,284 It was kind of anyone that, you know, was semi-lucid 887 00:40:45,368 --> 00:40:47,785 and could write their name was eligible 888 00:40:47,868 --> 00:40:52,118 to be a security guard at Woodstock '99. 889 00:40:52,201 --> 00:40:57,034 JOHN: At the gates, we had our most trusted security guys. 890 00:40:57,118 --> 00:40:59,326 So if somebody was trying to take money, 891 00:40:59,410 --> 00:41:01,368 it would have got caught. 892 00:41:02,034 --> 00:41:03,785 And with drinking water, 893 00:41:03,868 --> 00:41:07,118 it was unquestionably lots of free water. 894 00:41:07,201 --> 00:41:08,576 MICHAEL: You know, I mean, we worked 895 00:41:08,660 --> 00:41:11,493 with the health department to create a water system 896 00:41:11,576 --> 00:41:13,660 that would accommodate everybody who was there. 897 00:41:13,743 --> 00:41:16,827 You didn't have to buy water if you didn't want to. 898 00:41:16,910 --> 00:41:19,993 JOHN: Yes, bottles of water were four dollars. 899 00:41:20,076 --> 00:41:23,034 It was somewhat on the high side, 900 00:41:23,118 --> 00:41:26,493 but it wasn't as ridiculous as it got made out to be 901 00:41:26,576 --> 00:41:30,243 and if you're gonna go to a festival, 902 00:41:30,326 --> 00:41:31,618 you bring money with you. 903 00:41:31,702 --> 00:41:34,868 This was not a poor man's festival. 904 00:41:34,993 --> 00:41:36,326 INTERVIEWER: What's this line for? 905 00:41:36,410 --> 00:41:37,868 -The ATM machine. -CROWD: Yeah. 906 00:41:37,952 --> 00:41:39,326 -INTERVIEWER: The ATM? -ATM. 907 00:41:39,410 --> 00:41:42,076 -INTERVIEWER: Oh! -We've been waiting here a long time. 908 00:41:42,159 --> 00:41:44,743 JESSICA: We're 18. I'm working at a pizzeria for minimum wage. 909 00:41:44,827 --> 00:41:46,785 We're hot, we're sweaty, we're tired. 910 00:41:46,868 --> 00:41:48,076 We didn't sleep well. We're not starting 911 00:41:48,159 --> 00:41:49,743 on the best footing to start our, you know, 912 00:41:49,827 --> 00:41:51,368 three day of adventure, you know. 913 00:41:51,451 --> 00:41:52,868 MAN: Turn on the water! 914 00:41:52,952 --> 00:41:56,660 CAMERA MAN: Dude, what do you think about the water shortage, man? 915 00:41:56,743 --> 00:41:58,868 -It is fucked up. -CAMERA MAN: Shit is fucked up, man. 916 00:41:58,952 --> 00:42:01,159 -No more water. -CAMERA MAN: Let's start a riot. 917 00:42:01,243 --> 00:42:03,993 Woodstock '99, the riots. 918 00:42:04,076 --> 00:42:06,118 MIKE: I'm a college kid. I'm 20 years old. 919 00:42:06,201 --> 00:42:07,868 There's a lot of people that were younger than me. 920 00:42:07,952 --> 00:42:09,993 There's a lot of people that just like 921 00:42:10,076 --> 00:42:11,993 paid a lot of money to go to this festival. 922 00:42:12,076 --> 00:42:16,910 -(INDISTINCT CHATTER) -♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 923 00:42:16,993 --> 00:42:18,952 MIKE: You would go to these little troughs 924 00:42:19,034 --> 00:42:21,410 where you're supposed to be able to have a drink 925 00:42:21,493 --> 00:42:24,034 and there was people showering in them. 926 00:42:24,118 --> 00:42:25,284 So, while you just wanted 927 00:42:25,368 --> 00:42:26,910 to like douse your face with water 928 00:42:26,993 --> 00:42:29,743 or brush your teeth or do something with water, 929 00:42:29,827 --> 00:42:32,368 there was just people like full-on showering, 930 00:42:32,451 --> 00:42:35,326 you know, shampoo, soap. 931 00:42:35,410 --> 00:42:38,284 And then at some point, I think somebody busted a pipe 932 00:42:38,368 --> 00:42:41,576 because they were so tired of waiting for the water. 933 00:42:41,660 --> 00:42:42,910 So, then there was just like, 934 00:42:42,993 --> 00:42:45,618 all this water just going all over the place 935 00:42:45,702 --> 00:42:47,827 near the campgrounds and even flowing 936 00:42:47,910 --> 00:42:50,618 into the camp area, which led to the mud. 937 00:42:53,243 --> 00:42:54,535 MAUREEN: The porta potties, 938 00:42:54,618 --> 00:42:57,576 it didn't take long for them to become pretty much unusable. 939 00:42:57,660 --> 00:42:59,702 They were backing up pretty quickly 940 00:42:59,785 --> 00:43:02,034 and then the sewage was seeping out, 941 00:43:02,118 --> 00:43:04,952 to the point where you had kids 942 00:43:05,034 --> 00:43:06,535 within the first 24 hours 943 00:43:06,618 --> 00:43:08,326 rolling around in what they thought was mud 944 00:43:08,410 --> 00:43:10,910 but was really human waste. 945 00:43:10,993 --> 00:43:15,493 -(INDISTINCT CHATTER) -(SCREAMS) 946 00:43:15,576 --> 00:43:17,493 KEN: That mud that these people were in, 947 00:43:17,576 --> 00:43:18,952 as far as I was concerned, 948 00:43:19,034 --> 00:43:21,159 based on what I saw, it was mud and shit. 949 00:43:21,243 --> 00:43:23,785 So I did see people covered in that, 950 00:43:23,868 --> 00:43:25,451 thought that was pretty strange, 951 00:43:25,535 --> 00:43:27,618 not a thing I would normally see where I come from. 952 00:43:27,702 --> 00:43:28,952 CAMERAMAN: We are going on a mission 953 00:43:29,034 --> 00:43:30,493 that nobody has ever gone on. 954 00:43:30,576 --> 00:43:31,743 Oh, you see. You can smell. 955 00:43:31,827 --> 00:43:34,118 -The place is gruesome... Oh! -CAMERAMAN: Holy shit. 956 00:43:34,201 --> 00:43:36,034 ROB: Plumbing, always a challenge 957 00:43:36,118 --> 00:43:37,201 at rock festivals. Again, 958 00:43:37,284 --> 00:43:38,576 this was something that in the '90s, 959 00:43:38,660 --> 00:43:40,660 people did not think there was a better way 960 00:43:40,743 --> 00:43:41,952 to do stuff like this. 961 00:43:42,034 --> 00:43:43,702 People, in the future, 962 00:43:44,660 --> 00:43:46,243 worth their weight in gold. 963 00:43:46,326 --> 00:43:47,827 -I'm telling you. -(MAN LAUGHING) 964 00:43:47,910 --> 00:43:50,118 ROB: So the place smelled pretty gross 965 00:43:50,201 --> 00:43:51,952 by even Friday afternoon. 966 00:43:53,243 --> 00:43:55,618 NOODLES: You know, there's a festival grounds in Germany. 967 00:43:55,702 --> 00:43:57,827 It was literally built by Hitler. 968 00:43:57,910 --> 00:43:59,660 And we've played there a bunch of times, 969 00:43:59,743 --> 00:44:04,326 it's a great venue, lot of fun. The airbase was less hospitable 970 00:44:04,410 --> 00:44:06,702 than the venue built by Nazis. 971 00:44:06,785 --> 00:44:08,827 (BOTH LAUGH) 972 00:44:08,910 --> 00:44:13,618 (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 973 00:44:16,076 --> 00:44:18,159 PAX VOLUNTEER: Hi, we're with an organization called PAX, 974 00:44:18,243 --> 00:44:19,493 what we're doing is we're getting people 975 00:44:19,576 --> 00:44:23,076 to sign these petitions against gun violence. 976 00:44:23,159 --> 00:44:24,535 It's a good thing. It's basically trying 977 00:44:24,618 --> 00:44:26,493 to get people to stop getting guns 978 00:44:26,576 --> 00:44:28,368 in the hands of kids, you know. 979 00:44:28,451 --> 00:44:30,660 We're giving away candles for the... 980 00:44:30,743 --> 00:44:33,243 the light ceremony tomorrow night at eight o'clock. 981 00:44:33,326 --> 00:44:35,284 So here, why don't you just take one as a souvenir 982 00:44:35,368 --> 00:44:36,702 for coming by and seeing us. 983 00:44:36,785 --> 00:44:39,660 And stop by the candle ceremony at eight o'clock tomorrow night 984 00:44:39,743 --> 00:44:41,326 and I'm sure you'll see all the candles 985 00:44:41,410 --> 00:44:43,159 that we've given out. Thanks. 986 00:44:44,243 --> 00:44:45,618 ♪ ("BAWITDABA" BY KID ROCK PLAYING) ♪ 987 00:44:45,702 --> 00:44:47,451 ♪ Bawitdaba, da bang, Da dang diggy diggy, diggy ♪ 988 00:44:47,535 --> 00:44:49,702 ♪ Said the boogie Said up jump the boogie ♪ 989 00:44:49,785 --> 00:44:52,702 ♪ Bawitdaba, da bang Da dang diggy diggy, diggy ♪ 990 00:44:52,785 --> 00:44:55,785 ♪ Said the boogie Said up jump the boogie ♪ 991 00:44:55,868 --> 00:44:58,159 STEVEN: I think about Kid Rock coming out 992 00:44:58,243 --> 00:45:00,743 in this luxurious, white fur coat. 993 00:45:00,827 --> 00:45:03,785 If you were looking for an easy metaphor 994 00:45:03,868 --> 00:45:05,660 to explain the haves and the have-nots 995 00:45:05,743 --> 00:45:09,368 at Woodstock '99 and in fact, I think in 1999 in general 996 00:45:09,451 --> 00:45:12,076 to me, like that sums it up perfectly. 997 00:45:12,159 --> 00:45:14,076 -(CROW CHEERING) -DAVE HOLMES: It's a very weird thing 998 00:45:14,159 --> 00:45:15,618 that you see at the end of the '90s. 999 00:45:15,702 --> 00:45:17,868 There's just this simmering anger. 1000 00:45:17,952 --> 00:45:21,410 And it manifested itself through sludge and angst. 1001 00:45:21,493 --> 00:45:27,993 ♪ My name is Kid ♪ 1002 00:45:29,493 --> 00:45:30,702 ♪ Is Kid Rock ♪ 1003 00:45:30,785 --> 00:45:33,243 ♪ Bawitdaba, da bang Da dang diggy diggy, diggy ♪ 1004 00:45:33,326 --> 00:45:36,284 DAVE HOLMES: The DJ on stage became a weird trope 1005 00:45:36,368 --> 00:45:38,118 and you never really knew why they were there, 1006 00:45:38,201 --> 00:45:39,243 just you would hear a faint 1007 00:45:39,326 --> 00:45:40,785 sort of wicky-wicky noise in the background, 1008 00:45:40,868 --> 00:45:43,410 and that was enough to sustain a whole band member. 1009 00:45:43,493 --> 00:45:47,451 It seemed like the kind of thing that would break down barriers, 1010 00:45:47,535 --> 00:45:50,410 you know, hip-hop and rock would be one thing. 1011 00:45:50,493 --> 00:45:52,076 But it really didn't. 1012 00:45:52,159 --> 00:45:53,827 WESLEY: If you look at the history 1013 00:45:53,910 --> 00:45:57,159 of American music, nu metal was just bound to happen. 1014 00:45:57,243 --> 00:45:59,910 This is a country whose music was basically forged 1015 00:45:59,993 --> 00:46:02,702 in white people impersonating Black people. 1016 00:46:02,785 --> 00:46:04,827 It makes all the sense in the world 1017 00:46:04,910 --> 00:46:08,576 that that would wind up in this sort of swamp 1018 00:46:08,660 --> 00:46:12,159 that nu metal basically becomes. 1019 00:46:12,243 --> 00:46:14,326 MOBY: You know, a lot of times when white people 1020 00:46:14,410 --> 00:46:17,451 have embraced hip-hop, they've ignored the funk, 1021 00:46:17,535 --> 00:46:18,660 they've ignored the R&B. 1022 00:46:18,743 --> 00:46:20,827 You know, they've ignored the subtlety 1023 00:46:20,910 --> 00:46:23,410 and they've embraced homophobia and misogyny. 1024 00:46:23,493 --> 00:46:26,993 ♪ If you don't like Kid Rock You can suck my dick ♪ 1025 00:46:27,076 --> 00:46:28,785 MOBY: The same thing with metal. 1026 00:46:28,868 --> 00:46:33,076 There's a lot of wonderful, celebratory, joyful, fun metal, 1027 00:46:33,159 --> 00:46:36,910 but somehow nu metal embraced the troglodyte elements. 1028 00:46:36,993 --> 00:46:40,076 -(CROWD CHEERING) -KID ROCK: Now listen close. 1029 00:46:40,159 --> 00:46:41,368 You want me to get political? 1030 00:46:41,451 --> 00:46:44,201 Well, this is about as deep as Kid Rock thinks. 1031 00:46:45,243 --> 00:46:47,284 Monica Lewinsky is a fucking hoe 1032 00:46:47,368 --> 00:46:49,576 and Bill Clinton is a goddamn pimp. 1033 00:46:49,660 --> 00:46:53,243 (CROWD CHEERING) 1034 00:46:53,326 --> 00:46:55,702 MOBY: And granted this is over 20 years ago 1035 00:46:55,785 --> 00:46:59,993 and I'm still so baffled, like, how it went from 1036 00:47:00,076 --> 00:47:02,451 the sort of progressive enlightened values 1037 00:47:02,535 --> 00:47:05,201 of Kurt Cobain and Michael Stipe 1038 00:47:05,284 --> 00:47:08,368 to misogyny and homophobia. 1039 00:47:08,451 --> 00:47:14,451 And the rape, frat boy culture that was at Woodstock '99. 1040 00:47:15,785 --> 00:47:19,868 MAUREEN: What happened in the early '90s with Nirvana 1041 00:47:19,952 --> 00:47:25,660 was nothing short of a generational overtaking. 1042 00:47:25,743 --> 00:47:27,410 The acts and the artists 1043 00:47:27,493 --> 00:47:29,201 that had been dominating the culture 1044 00:47:29,284 --> 00:47:32,702 were wiped off the face of the planet by Nevermind. 1045 00:47:32,785 --> 00:47:37,034 Boy bands, pop music, hair metal, it was all done. 1046 00:47:37,118 --> 00:47:38,952 Nirvana actually gave a voice 1047 00:47:39,034 --> 00:47:40,535 to the unrest that was happening, 1048 00:47:40,618 --> 00:47:43,702 that the gatekeepers of pop culture were not aware of. 1049 00:47:43,785 --> 00:47:46,576 And so, Nirvana just cracked that door open, 1050 00:47:46,660 --> 00:47:51,326 and it gave an entire generation this purpose and connection. 1051 00:47:52,535 --> 00:47:54,993 STEVEN: You had bands that were talking about 1052 00:47:55,076 --> 00:47:58,743 feminism and LGBTQ rights and anti-racism. 1053 00:47:58,827 --> 00:48:01,451 And I think a lot of people looked at rock music and hip-hop 1054 00:48:01,535 --> 00:48:03,702 as these things that could actually 1055 00:48:03,785 --> 00:48:05,535 make a difference in the world. 1056 00:48:07,159 --> 00:48:09,660 MAUREEN: It was a sudden earthquake 1057 00:48:09,743 --> 00:48:11,910 in rock and roll and pop culture 1058 00:48:11,993 --> 00:48:15,702 in which the boys and the girls want to level the playing field, 1059 00:48:15,785 --> 00:48:19,243 So you have Kurt in a dress, gender bending. 1060 00:48:19,326 --> 00:48:20,576 You have Riot grrrl, 1061 00:48:20,660 --> 00:48:23,201 you have the second most relevant band 1062 00:48:23,284 --> 00:48:25,034 of that decade, The Beastie Boys, 1063 00:48:25,118 --> 00:48:28,743 maturing and apologizing for their sexism and misogyny. 1064 00:48:28,827 --> 00:48:31,576 Especially in terms of like girls becoming empowered 1065 00:48:31,660 --> 00:48:33,827 and becoming sure of themselves, you know. 1066 00:48:33,910 --> 00:48:35,868 If we could help with that, that was kind of cool. 1067 00:48:35,952 --> 00:48:38,868 MAUREEN: And on top of that, you have this generation 1068 00:48:38,952 --> 00:48:41,660 of young men who really, 1069 00:48:41,743 --> 00:48:45,118 for the first time, had been raised by moms 1070 00:48:45,201 --> 00:48:48,743 who came of age during the real first wave of feminism, 1071 00:48:48,827 --> 00:48:50,827 or had been raised by single moms, 1072 00:48:50,910 --> 00:48:52,451 and so you sort of felt 1073 00:48:52,535 --> 00:48:55,201 that there was this unprecedented parity 1074 00:48:55,284 --> 00:48:58,660 in this generation between the boys and the girls. 1075 00:48:58,743 --> 00:49:01,910 ♪ (UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 1076 00:49:01,993 --> 00:49:05,159 But that said, grunge was very short lived. 1077 00:49:05,243 --> 00:49:09,326 It became commodified and commercialized so quickly. 1078 00:49:09,410 --> 00:49:12,243 This negative energy just makes me stronger. 1079 00:49:12,326 --> 00:49:15,868 We will not retreat. This band is unstoppable. 1080 00:49:15,952 --> 00:49:18,076 And then in April of 1994, 1081 00:49:18,159 --> 00:49:20,034 you have the death of Kurt Cobain. 1082 00:49:20,118 --> 00:49:24,910 The hope that people had in the early '90s was gone. 1083 00:49:24,993 --> 00:49:29,326 MOBY: Then like culture went from progressive to aggressive. 1084 00:49:29,410 --> 00:49:33,702 It went from inclusive to violent and misogynistic. 1085 00:49:33,785 --> 00:49:37,118 Honestly, and this might sound overly simplistic and glib, 1086 00:49:37,201 --> 00:49:39,910 but it was money. You know, the major labels 1087 00:49:39,993 --> 00:49:44,159 the alternative rocks stations, MTV, Spin, Rolling Stone 1088 00:49:44,243 --> 00:49:48,159 all of a sudden, they realized they made more money 1089 00:49:48,243 --> 00:49:50,451 because their demographic was expanded. 1090 00:49:51,410 --> 00:49:53,827 SCOTT STAPP: Our peak started around '99. 1091 00:49:53,910 --> 00:49:56,159 That's when nu metal came in, too. 1092 00:49:56,243 --> 00:50:00,535 So we were all kinda blowing up at the same exact time. 1093 00:50:00,618 --> 00:50:04,326 But post grunge, you know where Creed was born, 1094 00:50:04,410 --> 00:50:08,034 we really had something to say and we were looking inward, 1095 00:50:08,118 --> 00:50:11,910 really expressing these feelings of frustration, 1096 00:50:11,993 --> 00:50:15,743 that time in our life where the idealistic view 1097 00:50:15,827 --> 00:50:19,993 that we had of the world was crushed and crumbled. 1098 00:50:20,076 --> 00:50:23,034 And then, the nu metal, took it a step further 1099 00:50:23,118 --> 00:50:25,201 with its angst, this aggression. 1100 00:50:25,284 --> 00:50:28,201 It became the mouthpiece of the generation 1101 00:50:28,284 --> 00:50:30,952 along with naivety, bravado, 1102 00:50:31,034 --> 00:50:33,201 talking trash, being rebellious 1103 00:50:33,284 --> 00:50:35,660 and I think that's why it connected. 1104 00:50:35,743 --> 00:50:37,910 TARIQ: There was also that underlying fear 1105 00:50:37,993 --> 00:50:41,910 of the unknown. The angst, and anxiety associated 1106 00:50:41,993 --> 00:50:43,243 with just not knowing 1107 00:50:43,326 --> 00:50:45,118 what was gonna happen at the time 1108 00:50:45,201 --> 00:50:46,410 of the new millennia. 1109 00:50:46,493 --> 00:50:50,785 And people needed some way to sort of exhaust that energy 1110 00:50:50,868 --> 00:50:54,868 and I think that genre of music provided the perfect vehicle 1111 00:50:54,952 --> 00:50:57,660 for people to just say, you know, "Fuck it." 1112 00:50:58,451 --> 00:50:59,660 MAUREEN: You know these artists, 1113 00:50:59,743 --> 00:51:01,993 they tapped into something very real 1114 00:51:02,076 --> 00:51:05,410 and something that had been sort of pushed down 1115 00:51:05,493 --> 00:51:07,368 in the earlier part of the decade. 1116 00:51:07,451 --> 00:51:10,034 And so I don't necessarily think 1117 00:51:10,118 --> 00:51:13,576 that acts like Korn or Limp Bizkit 1118 00:51:13,660 --> 00:51:15,702 were fomenting something in the culture 1119 00:51:15,785 --> 00:51:18,076 that wasn't already there. 1120 00:51:18,159 --> 00:51:21,118 ♪ (UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 1121 00:51:21,201 --> 00:51:23,618 REPORTER: They hated jocks, loved the internet. 1122 00:51:23,702 --> 00:51:25,743 They were known as the Trench Coat Mafia, 1123 00:51:25,827 --> 00:51:27,618 question is why didn't anyone know 1124 00:51:27,702 --> 00:51:28,785 they turned so violent. 1125 00:51:28,868 --> 00:51:30,660 And they, like, started blowing up 1126 00:51:30,743 --> 00:51:32,743 and shooting everyone in the cafeteria. 1127 00:51:32,827 --> 00:51:34,952 REPORTER: They are a group of disenfranchised kids 1128 00:51:35,034 --> 00:51:36,368 that have threatened revenge 1129 00:51:36,451 --> 00:51:38,410 in the past for kids making fun of them. 1130 00:51:38,493 --> 00:51:40,451 ♪ (UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 1131 00:51:40,535 --> 00:51:42,827 STEVEN: Just three months, before Woodstock '99 1132 00:51:42,910 --> 00:51:46,034 the school shooting at Columbine took place. 1133 00:51:46,118 --> 00:51:48,993 And it's such an extreme act of violence, 1134 00:51:49,076 --> 00:51:51,076 but I think it's an example of people 1135 00:51:51,159 --> 00:51:53,410 who are really struggling to be seen. 1136 00:51:53,493 --> 00:51:55,535 BILL: And we continue our reporting on the corrosive effects 1137 00:51:55,618 --> 00:51:58,785 of the popular music world on some American children. 1138 00:51:58,868 --> 00:52:01,326 NEWS REPORTER: We now know that one of them also posted 1139 00:52:01,410 --> 00:52:03,118 violent lyrics on the internet. 1140 00:52:03,201 --> 00:52:06,159 MAUREEN: I think the blaming of artists, musicians, 1141 00:52:06,243 --> 00:52:08,618 filmmakers. It's all just political maneuvering 1142 00:52:08,702 --> 00:52:12,201 and an easy way to misdirect your eye over here 1143 00:52:12,284 --> 00:52:13,493 when the real problems 1144 00:52:13,576 --> 00:52:17,618 are so much more difficult and really require digging in. 1145 00:52:17,702 --> 00:52:22,576 I think if anyone like Hitler or Mussolini were alive now, 1146 00:52:22,660 --> 00:52:24,243 they'd have to be rock stars. 1147 00:52:24,326 --> 00:52:26,410 -(INDISTINCT CHATTER) -♪ (HEAVY MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 1148 00:52:32,493 --> 00:52:33,827 Hey, what's up? 1149 00:52:33,910 --> 00:52:35,326 -Are we doing all right? -MAN: Yeah. 1150 00:52:35,410 --> 00:52:37,368 -Everything going good still? -Everything's going great man. 1151 00:52:37,451 --> 00:52:39,243 We were just hanging out with Puff up there, man. 1152 00:52:39,326 --> 00:52:41,618 -He's a cool guy. -MAN 2: Yo, D! 1153 00:52:41,702 --> 00:52:43,660 -What's up, how you doing? -MAN 2: What's up, man? 1154 00:52:43,743 --> 00:52:45,868 ♪ (MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 1155 00:52:45,952 --> 00:52:49,201 NARRATOR: "Saturday, July 24th, 1999. 1156 00:52:49,284 --> 00:52:50,660 Busy day. 1157 00:52:50,743 --> 00:52:53,451 Just made it back to the tent for some R&R. 1158 00:52:53,535 --> 00:52:56,868 We saw in this order Tragically Hip, 1159 00:52:56,952 --> 00:52:58,326 I know why they do so well, 1160 00:52:58,410 --> 00:53:00,702 they bring Canada to all their shows. 1161 00:53:00,785 --> 00:53:02,868 Kid Rock, I'm getting that album. 1162 00:53:02,952 --> 00:53:05,451 He played every instrument during each song. 1163 00:53:05,535 --> 00:53:06,702 That rocks. 1164 00:53:06,785 --> 00:53:09,952 Wyclef Jean and the Refugee All-Stars. 1165 00:53:10,034 --> 00:53:12,410 I remember saying of someone's mother once, 1166 00:53:12,493 --> 00:53:14,576 something about nothing nice to say? 1167 00:53:15,660 --> 00:53:19,118 Counting Crows, not the same live, but not bad. 1168 00:53:19,201 --> 00:53:21,993 Dave Matthews, nothing needs to be said. 1169 00:53:24,118 --> 00:53:26,868 My shoes got soaked twice. Oh, well. 1170 00:53:26,952 --> 00:53:30,159 Now to build up strength, because I'm going to the pit. 1171 00:53:31,827 --> 00:53:34,827 (SIGHING) Hippies beating on drums down the road. 1172 00:53:34,910 --> 00:53:36,243 Fucking hippies." 1173 00:53:36,326 --> 00:53:37,451 (METAL CLANGING) 1174 00:53:41,076 --> 00:53:43,535 MIKE: So there were these trash can drum circles. 1175 00:53:43,618 --> 00:53:46,368 I had never seen anything like that in my life. 1176 00:53:46,451 --> 00:53:47,702 (CLANGS) 1177 00:53:52,118 --> 00:53:55,576 MIKE: You would find the most insane looking characters 1178 00:53:55,660 --> 00:53:57,827 just banging on anything they could find. 1179 00:54:00,201 --> 00:54:02,660 BEN: All day long for that whole weekend, 1180 00:54:02,743 --> 00:54:05,034 a bunch of people had taken trash cans 1181 00:54:05,118 --> 00:54:06,952 and tipped them over and were banging 1182 00:54:07,034 --> 00:54:08,201 on them incessantly. 1183 00:54:08,284 --> 00:54:10,785 Not really in rhythm just banging, banging, banging. 1184 00:54:10,868 --> 00:54:12,910 And we thought it was kind of funny 1185 00:54:13,660 --> 00:54:14,868 but we also thought like, 1186 00:54:14,952 --> 00:54:17,118 "Well, I wonder who is going to put these trash cans 1187 00:54:17,201 --> 00:54:19,451 back over and put them back where they were." 1188 00:54:19,535 --> 00:54:22,743 MAN: (ON MICROPHONE) Sixty-nine, '94, a poster for '99. 1189 00:54:23,535 --> 00:54:24,660 Anybody else? 1190 00:54:43,702 --> 00:54:46,827 -...up here and you can do this. -(PEOPLE CHEERING) 1191 00:55:01,410 --> 00:55:03,410 (PEOPLE CHEERING, APPLAUDING) 1192 00:55:05,034 --> 00:55:09,451 On Saturday, you could see that we, as a group 1193 00:55:09,535 --> 00:55:11,910 kind of abused the place. 1194 00:55:11,993 --> 00:55:16,159 You have so many people, not enough receptacles. 1195 00:55:16,243 --> 00:55:19,493 So, like you would expect, a camping trip, a lot of BO, 1196 00:55:19,576 --> 00:55:22,243 sweat, mud and garbage everywhere. 1197 00:55:22,326 --> 00:55:24,076 Excrement, you know it was not good. 1198 00:55:24,159 --> 00:55:26,493 It was not good. A lot of it, you know. 1199 00:55:26,576 --> 00:55:30,201 ROB: Every night I slept on a pile of pizza boxes. 1200 00:55:30,284 --> 00:55:32,118 Pizza boxes were very good surface 1201 00:55:32,201 --> 00:55:35,702 to sleep on cause pizza boxes are white and it's important, because they're white 1202 00:55:35,785 --> 00:55:37,952 you can tell if they've been urinated on or not 1203 00:55:38,034 --> 00:55:40,034 because every flat surface there had been 1204 00:55:40,118 --> 00:55:43,785 so thoroughly urinated on by Friday evening. 1205 00:55:44,952 --> 00:55:46,368 KEN: The showers, I wanted no part 1206 00:55:46,451 --> 00:55:48,034 of those things really from day one. 1207 00:55:48,118 --> 00:55:50,702 They basically had just one big communal shower, 1208 00:55:50,785 --> 00:55:52,868 like one for the women, one for the men. 1209 00:55:52,952 --> 00:55:56,827 When we went in there, the water was like shin to knee deep, 1210 00:55:56,910 --> 00:55:59,410 so you're basically just showering in filth. 1211 00:55:59,493 --> 00:56:01,326 Then, the women shower was next to ours, 1212 00:56:01,410 --> 00:56:03,201 also separated by a tarp. 1213 00:56:03,284 --> 00:56:05,326 So, there were like dudes like, 1214 00:56:05,410 --> 00:56:07,159 pulling the tarp back to, like, look at the women 1215 00:56:07,243 --> 00:56:08,785 who were showering next door. 1216 00:56:09,702 --> 00:56:11,326 WOMAN: I did not take a shower there. 1217 00:56:11,410 --> 00:56:14,451 I definitely saw that there were showers 1218 00:56:14,535 --> 00:56:17,743 and was not comfortable with that. 1219 00:56:17,827 --> 00:56:19,827 That did not seem like safe space. 1220 00:56:20,785 --> 00:56:22,284 ♪ (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 1221 00:56:22,368 --> 00:56:25,368 DAVE: The site, it reminded you of like a refugee camp 1222 00:56:25,451 --> 00:56:26,827 from the movies. 1223 00:56:28,284 --> 00:56:30,868 That there had been some sort of big battle 1224 00:56:30,952 --> 00:56:32,743 and there was just trash all over, 1225 00:56:32,827 --> 00:56:35,076 so you just saw that break down 1226 00:56:35,159 --> 00:56:38,410 of both the structure and civility. 1227 00:56:38,493 --> 00:56:39,410 (ALL CHEER) 1228 00:56:39,493 --> 00:56:41,410 DAVE: Also, it was just interesting 1229 00:56:41,493 --> 00:56:44,243 because the security at Woodstock '99 1230 00:56:44,326 --> 00:56:46,284 was a little bit of a different beast. 1231 00:56:46,368 --> 00:56:48,201 You could just tell, 1232 00:56:48,284 --> 00:56:50,535 just from the interactions with them 1233 00:56:50,618 --> 00:56:54,493 that they just didn't act like usual security guards. 1234 00:56:54,576 --> 00:56:55,827 CAMERA MAN: How was your fucking job? 1235 00:56:55,910 --> 00:56:58,118 -Awesome time, man. -Was it nice? Did you get pussy? 1236 00:56:58,201 --> 00:57:00,660 Did you use that pass right there to get some pussy? 1237 00:57:00,743 --> 00:57:01,993 -Yes, I did. -Did you? 1238 00:57:02,076 --> 00:57:04,284 -Yes I did. -I hate you. I'm jealous. 1239 00:57:04,368 --> 00:57:06,785 The vast majority of them were just doing whatever it was 1240 00:57:06,868 --> 00:57:07,910 that they wanted. 1241 00:57:07,993 --> 00:57:10,368 Security didn't really work with anyone else. 1242 00:57:11,076 --> 00:57:12,410 (PEOPLE CHEERING) 1243 00:57:13,535 --> 00:57:16,410 ♪ ("IRONIC" BY ALANIS MORRISSETTE PLAYING) ♪ 1244 00:57:23,702 --> 00:57:29,451 ♪ An old man turned 98 ♪ 1245 00:57:29,535 --> 00:57:35,493 CROWD: ♪ He won the lottery And died the next day ♪ 1246 00:57:35,576 --> 00:57:38,827 -♪ It's a ♪ -CROWD: ♪ Black fly ♪ 1247 00:57:38,910 --> 00:57:41,451 -♪ In your ♪ -CROWD: ♪ Chardonnay ♪ 1248 00:57:41,535 --> 00:57:44,451 ♪ It's a death row pardon ♪ 1249 00:57:44,535 --> 00:57:46,993 ♪ Two minutes too late ♪ 1250 00:57:47,076 --> 00:57:52,576 ♪ And isn't it ironic Don't you think? ♪ 1251 00:57:52,660 --> 00:57:58,535 ♪ It's like rain On your wedding day ♪ 1252 00:57:58,618 --> 00:58:01,660 ♪ It's a free ride ♪ 1253 00:58:01,743 --> 00:58:03,743 ♪ When you've already paid ♪ 1254 00:58:03,827 --> 00:58:05,660 JEWEL: Woodstock '99 definitely felt like 1255 00:58:05,743 --> 00:58:08,535 it lacked a cohesive feeling. 1256 00:58:08,618 --> 00:58:12,034 Was it because, in all honesty, the Gen Xers and next generation 1257 00:58:12,118 --> 00:58:14,410 really weren't fighting anything. 1258 00:58:14,493 --> 00:58:17,785 But we wanted to be angsty and we wanted to be deep. 1259 00:58:17,868 --> 00:58:19,535 I think the only thing we were really fighting 1260 00:58:19,618 --> 00:58:21,743 is we didn't feel like we had a purpose. 1261 00:58:21,827 --> 00:58:24,702 You know, difficult times galvanize you. 1262 00:58:24,785 --> 00:58:27,284 It galvanizes you around a cause. 1263 00:58:28,326 --> 00:58:30,702 But the '99 Woodstock just seemed like 1264 00:58:30,785 --> 00:58:33,785 it was trying to relive a nostalgic moment 1265 00:58:33,868 --> 00:58:36,576 along with commercialism and kind of capitalizing 1266 00:58:36,660 --> 00:58:38,868 and trying to maximize profits, but not having 1267 00:58:38,952 --> 00:58:41,827 a real soulful purpose for the show. 1268 00:58:41,910 --> 00:58:47,076 ♪ It's like rain On your wedding day ♪ 1269 00:58:47,159 --> 00:58:49,201 BEN: Somebody made a decision about this lineup, 1270 00:58:49,284 --> 00:58:51,368 like, we're gonna have a bunch of metal bands here, 1271 00:58:51,451 --> 00:58:53,868 and we're also gonna have, you know, Jewel and Cheryl Crow. 1272 00:58:53,952 --> 00:58:57,535 ♪ Advice That you just didn't take ♪ 1273 00:58:57,618 --> 00:58:58,910 MAUREEN: I have no idea what went 1274 00:58:58,993 --> 00:59:02,076 into the thought processes of the promoters 1275 00:59:02,159 --> 00:59:05,618 in booking only three female acts. 1276 00:59:05,702 --> 00:59:09,326 JOHN: I didn't think in any way in terms of male-female. 1277 00:59:09,410 --> 00:59:12,576 You either had to be a rock band or you had to have the charisma 1278 00:59:12,660 --> 00:59:13,827 to be able to pull it off. 1279 00:59:13,910 --> 00:59:16,868 We didn't say there has to be X number of female acts. 1280 00:59:16,952 --> 00:59:20,159 We booked who we thought belonged on it. 1281 00:59:20,243 --> 00:59:21,993 STEVEN: It seems like it was a deliberate choice 1282 00:59:22,076 --> 00:59:24,952 because each woman is on a different day of the festival. 1283 00:59:25,034 --> 00:59:30,326 It was like there was a quota for estrogen at Woodstock '99. 1284 00:59:30,410 --> 00:59:33,326 DAVE HOLMES: Saturday, I remember watching Alanis Morissette 1285 00:59:33,410 --> 00:59:36,243 and feeling aggravation from the audience, 1286 00:59:36,326 --> 00:59:38,451 literal angst bubbling up in the crowd. 1287 00:59:38,535 --> 00:59:40,118 And then I saw what was on the bill 1288 00:59:40,201 --> 00:59:42,284 for the rest of the night, which was in a row, 1289 00:59:42,368 --> 00:59:43,827 Limp Bizkit, Rage Against the Machine, 1290 00:59:43,910 --> 00:59:46,702 Metallica. That is a lot of aggression. 1291 00:59:46,785 --> 00:59:51,827 ♪ And isn't it ironic Don't you think? ♪ 1292 00:59:51,910 --> 00:59:57,868 ♪ A little too ironic And, yeah, I really do think ♪ 1293 00:59:59,284 --> 01:00:00,702 (CROWD CHEERING) 1294 01:00:00,785 --> 01:00:03,535 ALANIS MORISETTE: Thank you very much everyone. I love you. 1295 01:00:03,618 --> 01:00:07,118 (CHUCKLING) So much. Have a great night. 1296 01:00:07,201 --> 01:00:08,868 -Bless you each. -(CROWD CHEERING) 1297 01:00:12,410 --> 01:00:13,660 CAMERA MAN: How you doing? 1298 01:00:13,743 --> 01:00:16,451 -WOMAN: Good. How's it going? -Woodstock, baby. 1299 01:00:16,535 --> 01:00:17,993 -We're here. -CAMERA MAN: You see Limp Bizkit? 1300 01:00:18,076 --> 01:00:19,952 I'm gonna go see him later today? 1301 01:00:20,034 --> 01:00:22,785 There was a lot of buzz around Limp Bizkit. 1302 01:00:22,868 --> 01:00:27,451 It was probably the apex of their career and I loved it. 1303 01:00:27,535 --> 01:00:29,785 I kinda looked like Fred Durst, 1304 01:00:29,868 --> 01:00:31,910 and I was just ready to be a part of it 1305 01:00:31,993 --> 01:00:33,952 and I couldn't wait for their show. 1306 01:00:34,034 --> 01:00:35,284 -(INDISTINCT CHATTER) -We're here on MTV. 1307 01:00:35,368 --> 01:00:37,410 And we're ready for you, Woodstock. 1308 01:00:37,493 --> 01:00:39,159 I'm here to see Limp Bizkit. 1309 01:00:39,243 --> 01:00:42,326 MIKE: The morning before their show, I was on MTV 1310 01:00:42,410 --> 01:00:44,743 rapping Limp Bizkit lyrics with a crowd behind me. 1311 01:00:44,827 --> 01:00:47,827 And I just started saying, "I did it all for the 'Nookie.'" 1312 01:00:47,910 --> 01:00:49,159 "Come on. The nookie. 1313 01:00:49,243 --> 01:00:51,368 Come on, so you can take the cookie and stick it up your..." 1314 01:00:51,451 --> 01:00:52,576 -ALL: Ass! -Stick it up your 1315 01:00:52,660 --> 01:00:54,451 -Your Ass. -Stick it up your... 1316 01:00:54,535 --> 01:00:56,743 MIKE: People are screaming, "Stick it up your ass," 1317 01:00:56,827 --> 01:00:59,618 "Stick it up your ass, Stick it up your ass." 1318 01:00:59,702 --> 01:01:01,535 This is Fred from Limp Bizkit. 1319 01:01:01,618 --> 01:01:03,159 Let's find out who we are 1320 01:01:03,243 --> 01:01:06,368 on Ultra Sound this Sunday at 10:00. Punk. 1321 01:01:06,451 --> 01:01:08,952 Limp Bizkit, huge MTV artist at the time. 1322 01:01:09,034 --> 01:01:11,284 "Nookie." A smash. 1323 01:01:12,326 --> 01:01:13,868 You know any time we would put them on 1324 01:01:13,952 --> 01:01:16,785 or have them as guests or whatever it would rate really well. 1325 01:01:16,868 --> 01:01:18,201 Right now, we've got another performance 1326 01:01:18,284 --> 01:01:20,368 from Limp Bizkit who has an amazing album coming out on... 1327 01:01:20,451 --> 01:01:22,368 CARSON: It was a mutually beneficial relationship between the two. 1328 01:01:22,451 --> 01:01:25,535 Yeah, like MTV and Limp Bizkit were just, like, synonymous 1329 01:01:25,618 --> 01:01:27,118 it seemed in 1999. 1330 01:01:27,201 --> 01:01:30,368 And that's one of the greatest ascensions 1331 01:01:30,451 --> 01:01:34,034 of a band of that caliber that I've seen in a long time. 1332 01:01:34,118 --> 01:01:36,326 -You want the worst? -(CROWD CHEERING) 1333 01:01:37,743 --> 01:01:39,493 Well, you got the worst. 1334 01:01:40,451 --> 01:01:42,993 The one, the only... 1335 01:01:44,702 --> 01:01:47,618 -Limp Bizkit. -(CROWD CHEERING) 1336 01:01:49,493 --> 01:01:52,576 MIKE: Before they took the stage I looked around, 1337 01:01:52,660 --> 01:01:56,284 and I had never seen that many people before. 1338 01:01:56,368 --> 01:01:58,118 (CROWD CHEERING) 1339 01:01:58,201 --> 01:01:59,785 KEN: In the moment, it felt like, "Man, 1340 01:01:59,868 --> 01:02:01,868 we're seeing something special here." 1341 01:02:01,952 --> 01:02:05,034 And the crowds were fucking bananas for them. 1342 01:02:05,118 --> 01:02:08,243 MIKE: By day two, people were like a little bit drunker, 1343 01:02:08,326 --> 01:02:11,493 a little bit hotter, a little bit angrier. 1344 01:02:11,576 --> 01:02:13,660 And then Limp Bizkit's bass player came out 1345 01:02:13,743 --> 01:02:16,743 and he was just giving everybody the double middle finger. 1346 01:02:16,827 --> 01:02:21,243 Now, that was kind of the vibe that Limp Bizkit started with, 1347 01:02:21,326 --> 01:02:22,868 and then Fred Durst stepped in. 1348 01:02:24,326 --> 01:02:26,493 This is 1999, motherfucker. 1349 01:02:26,576 --> 01:02:28,451 -(CROWD CHEERING) -♪ (HEAVY MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 1350 01:02:28,535 --> 01:02:29,993 Take your Birkenstocks 1351 01:02:30,076 --> 01:02:31,743 and stick 'em up your fucking ass. 1352 01:02:34,702 --> 01:02:35,910 MIKE: People were just pumped up. 1353 01:02:35,993 --> 01:02:39,827 They had a lot of energy, lot of like college dudes. 1354 01:02:40,743 --> 01:02:41,702 College white dudes, 1355 01:02:41,785 --> 01:02:43,118 it looked like that was the crowd, 1356 01:02:43,201 --> 01:02:46,660 just like angry white, fraternity college dudes. 1357 01:02:46,743 --> 01:02:49,576 And that was when I realized I was the kind 1358 01:02:49,660 --> 01:02:53,034 of the perfect demographic for Woodstock to market to. 1359 01:02:53,118 --> 01:02:56,118 I was like the exact person that they wanted to go. 1360 01:02:56,201 --> 01:02:57,326 (CROWD CHEERING) 1361 01:02:58,868 --> 01:03:00,118 DAVE HOLMES: The typical festival 1362 01:03:00,201 --> 01:03:02,952 has many different cliques. They tend to go 1363 01:03:03,034 --> 01:03:06,284 for different genres and different fan bases 1364 01:03:06,368 --> 01:03:09,743 and whatever. This seemed to aim directly 1365 01:03:09,827 --> 01:03:15,076 at the most furious 24-year-olds in your life. 1366 01:03:15,159 --> 01:03:17,118 -Kid Rock, you going to see Kid rock? -MAN: Nah, bro. 1367 01:03:17,201 --> 01:03:20,118 I'm going to check out fucking Limp Bizkit, 1368 01:03:20,201 --> 01:03:22,076 Rage, Metallica, bro. 1369 01:03:22,159 --> 01:03:26,493 BEN: When you have a crowd who are excited, inebriated, 1370 01:03:26,576 --> 01:03:28,993 hot, and now you give 'em a band 1371 01:03:29,076 --> 01:03:32,243 that helped them release that energy, 1372 01:03:33,201 --> 01:03:34,660 what do you think is gonna happen? 1373 01:03:34,743 --> 01:03:35,827 (CROWD CHEERING) 1374 01:03:35,910 --> 01:03:38,243 FRED DURST: Hey, let me ask you a personal question. 1375 01:03:38,326 --> 01:03:41,243 How many people here ever woke up one morning 1376 01:03:41,326 --> 01:03:44,201 and just decided, it wasn't one of those days 1377 01:03:44,284 --> 01:03:45,993 and you're gonna break some shit? 1378 01:03:46,076 --> 01:03:48,576 -(CROWD CHEERING) -(DRUM BEATING) 1379 01:03:50,368 --> 01:03:52,451 Well, this is one of them days y'all... 1380 01:03:54,410 --> 01:03:56,827 where everything's fucked up, 1381 01:03:56,910 --> 01:03:58,993 and you just wanna break some shit. 1382 01:04:00,576 --> 01:04:01,618 You feel me? 1383 01:04:01,702 --> 01:04:04,159 -(CROWD CHEERING) -Let's feel it. 1384 01:04:04,243 --> 01:04:05,535 ♪ ("BREAK STUFF" BY LIMP BIZKIT PLAYING) ♪ 1385 01:04:05,618 --> 01:04:06,952 ♪ Its just one of those days ♪ 1386 01:04:07,034 --> 01:04:08,618 ♪ Where you don't want To wake up ♪ 1387 01:04:08,702 --> 01:04:10,910 ♪ Everything is fucked Everybody sucks ♪ 1388 01:04:10,993 --> 01:04:13,702 ♪ You don't really know why But you want to justify ♪ 1389 01:04:13,785 --> 01:04:14,993 ♪ Rippin' someone's head off ♪ 1390 01:04:15,076 --> 01:04:17,702 ♪ No human contact And if you interact ♪ 1391 01:04:17,785 --> 01:04:18,952 ♪ Your life is on contract ♪ 1392 01:04:19,034 --> 01:04:21,868 ♪ Your best bet Is to stay away motherfucker ♪ 1393 01:04:21,952 --> 01:04:23,368 ♪ It's just one of those days ♪ 1394 01:04:23,451 --> 01:04:25,034 ♪ It's all about the he-says, She-says... ♪ 1395 01:04:25,118 --> 01:04:27,910 JONATHAN: They had the crowd going insane, but by that time 1396 01:04:27,993 --> 01:04:29,868 people were walking around in shit and piss 1397 01:04:29,952 --> 01:04:32,576 because all of the fucking porta potties overflowed. 1398 01:04:32,660 --> 01:04:34,743 They were dehydrated, passing out. 1399 01:04:34,827 --> 01:04:36,868 It was too many people for what the facilities 1400 01:04:36,952 --> 01:04:40,535 they had, and then, it just went from there. 1401 01:04:40,618 --> 01:04:43,868 ♪ It's all about the he-says, She-says bullshit ♪ 1402 01:04:45,284 --> 01:04:46,451 ♪ I think you better quit... ♪ 1403 01:04:46,535 --> 01:04:49,118 DAVE HOLMES: And I know that he had an image to maintain 1404 01:04:49,201 --> 01:04:51,910 and they wanna do, like, put on a proper Limp Bizkit show. 1405 01:04:51,993 --> 01:04:57,368 But, you know, like even a liquor commercial says, 1406 01:04:57,451 --> 01:04:59,827 -"Please Drink Responsibly." -♪ (MUSIC PLAYING CONTINUES) ♪ 1407 01:05:02,243 --> 01:05:04,493 Time to reach deep down inside... 1408 01:05:06,034 --> 01:05:08,535 and take all that negative energy... 1409 01:05:11,034 --> 01:05:12,785 all that negative energy. 1410 01:05:14,910 --> 01:05:17,368 And let that shit out of your fucking system. 1411 01:05:19,076 --> 01:05:22,743 You got girl problems, you got boy problems, 1412 01:05:22,827 --> 01:05:26,576 you got parent problems, you got boss problems, 1413 01:05:26,660 --> 01:05:30,284 you got job problems, you got a problem with me, 1414 01:05:30,368 --> 01:05:32,201 you got a problem with yourself, 1415 01:05:32,284 --> 01:05:34,827 it's time to take all that negative energy 1416 01:05:34,910 --> 01:05:36,702 and put it the fuck out. 1417 01:05:38,702 --> 01:05:41,326 -You feel me, Woodstock? -(CROWD CHEERING) 1418 01:05:42,201 --> 01:05:43,910 All right, let's bring it out. 1419 01:05:45,368 --> 01:05:47,410 When this song kicks in, 1420 01:05:47,493 --> 01:05:49,326 I want you to fucking kick in. 1421 01:05:50,993 --> 01:05:52,076 You got it? 1422 01:05:55,827 --> 01:05:58,076 ♪ I feel like shit ♪ 1423 01:05:58,159 --> 01:06:01,118 ♪ My suggestion Is to keep your distance ♪ 1424 01:06:01,201 --> 01:06:03,326 ♪ Cause right now I'm dangerous ♪ 1425 01:06:03,410 --> 01:06:07,368 ♪ We've all felt like shit And been treated like shit ♪ 1426 01:06:07,451 --> 01:06:10,827 ♪ All of those motherfuckers Who want to step up ♪ 1427 01:06:10,910 --> 01:06:13,576 ♪ I hope you know I pack a chainsaw ♪ 1428 01:06:13,660 --> 01:06:15,618 ♪ I'll skin your ass raw ♪ 1429 01:06:15,702 --> 01:06:17,618 ♪ And if my day keeps going This way ♪ 1430 01:06:17,702 --> 01:06:19,827 ♪ I just might break Something tonight ♪ 1431 01:06:19,910 --> 01:06:24,076 ♪ I pack a chainsaw I'll skin your ass raw ♪ 1432 01:06:24,159 --> 01:06:25,952 ♪ And if my day keeps going This way ♪ 1433 01:06:26,034 --> 01:06:29,326 ♪ I just might break Your fuckin' face tonight ♪ 1434 01:06:29,410 --> 01:06:31,243 ♪ Give me something ♪ 1435 01:06:33,910 --> 01:06:35,576 ♪ Give me something ♪ 1436 01:06:38,618 --> 01:06:40,326 ♪ Give me something to break ♪ 1437 01:06:42,952 --> 01:06:45,118 ♪ How bout yer fucking face ♪ 1438 01:06:46,535 --> 01:06:48,368 ♪ I hope you know I pack a chainsaw ♪ 1439 01:06:48,451 --> 01:06:50,576 -♪ What! ♪ -♪ A chainsaw ♪ 1440 01:06:50,660 --> 01:06:53,201 -♪ What! ♪ -♪ A motherfucking chainsaw ♪ 1441 01:06:53,284 --> 01:06:54,952 ♪ What! ♪ 1442 01:06:55,618 --> 01:06:56,910 ♪ So come and get it ♪ 1443 01:06:56,993 --> 01:06:58,493 (CROWD CHEERING) 1444 01:07:01,159 --> 01:07:02,368 That's some tight shit right there, 1445 01:07:02,451 --> 01:07:04,451 the crowd surfing on the plywood. 1446 01:07:05,952 --> 01:07:08,660 JOHN: Fred Durst was a moron. 1447 01:07:08,743 --> 01:07:11,660 He was completely defiant in between songs. 1448 01:07:11,743 --> 01:07:12,910 We went up to him, 1449 01:07:12,993 --> 01:07:15,785 you know, and said, "Hey, calm things down" you know. 1450 01:07:16,785 --> 01:07:17,868 He was out of his mind. 1451 01:07:17,993 --> 01:07:19,993 He was completely out of his mind. 1452 01:07:21,326 --> 01:07:23,827 Fuck, we're Limp Bizkit. 1453 01:07:25,910 --> 01:07:28,952 That's right. Fuck you, too. 1454 01:07:31,493 --> 01:07:33,159 MIKE: People tried to blame Fred Durst. 1455 01:07:33,243 --> 01:07:34,576 I don't think you can blame Fred Durst. 1456 01:07:34,660 --> 01:07:36,493 Fred Durst was being Fred Durst. 1457 01:07:36,576 --> 01:07:38,326 He was doing what people wanted him to do. 1458 01:07:38,410 --> 01:07:39,952 ♪ (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 1459 01:07:43,410 --> 01:07:45,868 JOHN: A normal Limp Bizkit show, he doesn't jump 1460 01:07:45,952 --> 01:07:49,243 into the audience on a piece of plywood, get passed around 1461 01:07:49,326 --> 01:07:51,451 and keep screaming "Break things, break things, 1462 01:07:51,535 --> 01:07:53,410 break things." 1463 01:07:53,493 --> 01:07:57,076 He caused a lot of trouble. It's a miracle nobody got hurt 1464 01:07:57,159 --> 01:08:00,535 because we still had another day. 1465 01:08:00,618 --> 01:08:02,284 CHRIS CONNELLY: How scary was it for you up there 1466 01:08:02,368 --> 01:08:03,660 when they started ripping that place apart, 1467 01:08:03,743 --> 01:08:05,326 when they started taking the plywood off the towers 1468 01:08:05,410 --> 01:08:06,910 -and stuff? -Oh, my God. 1469 01:08:06,993 --> 01:08:08,243 Dude, it's not our fault. 1470 01:08:09,702 --> 01:08:11,576 JONATHAN: It gets me pissed off, you see I'm swelling up 1471 01:08:11,660 --> 01:08:14,952 right now. It makes me mad because they blame us. 1472 01:08:15,034 --> 01:08:16,284 Rock music has always been the escape, 1473 01:08:16,368 --> 01:08:18,284 I mean, "Hey, I feel a connection with this person 1474 01:08:18,368 --> 01:08:20,118 'cause he's going through what I went through, 1475 01:08:20,201 --> 01:08:22,201 and if he got through it, I can get through it." 1476 01:08:23,535 --> 01:08:26,493 MAUREEN: To blame the artists, I think it's too easy. 1477 01:08:26,576 --> 01:08:28,952 We never ask the deeper, existential question, 1478 01:08:29,034 --> 01:08:31,618 "Why are so many young men in America, 1479 01:08:31,702 --> 01:08:33,368 why are they so angry?" 1480 01:08:34,660 --> 01:08:37,076 STEVEN: It's very convenient to say that, 1481 01:08:37,159 --> 01:08:39,368 "This aggressive rock band. It's their fault." 1482 01:08:39,451 --> 01:08:42,660 But I think that if you look at what was going on in the culture 1483 01:08:42,743 --> 01:08:45,702 and the rot that was setting in, in a lot of places, 1484 01:08:46,368 --> 01:08:47,618 it's bigger than nu metal. 1485 01:08:47,702 --> 01:08:49,284 And it's certainly bigger than Limp Bizkit. 1486 01:08:49,368 --> 01:08:51,410 -(CROWD CHEERING) -♪ (METAL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 1487 01:08:56,410 --> 01:08:58,493 STEVEN: I think when we look back on 1999, 1488 01:08:58,576 --> 01:09:01,660 it was a very top-down world and I think in general, 1489 01:09:01,743 --> 01:09:04,618 the 20th century was a very top-down era. 1490 01:09:04,702 --> 01:09:06,952 ♪ ("KILLING IN THE NAME" BY RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE PLAYING) ♪ 1491 01:09:10,284 --> 01:09:12,201 ♪ Killing in the name of ♪ 1492 01:09:12,284 --> 01:09:14,326 STEVEN: It was very easy for the government 1493 01:09:14,410 --> 01:09:16,910 or corporations or whoever was in power 1494 01:09:16,993 --> 01:09:19,618 to dictate the way that the world was going to be. 1495 01:09:19,702 --> 01:09:20,910 And there really was nothing 1496 01:09:20,993 --> 01:09:23,576 that the average person could do to stop it. 1497 01:09:23,660 --> 01:09:26,368 ♪ Some of those That work forces ♪ 1498 01:09:26,451 --> 01:09:29,243 ♪ Are the same That burn crosses ♪ 1499 01:09:29,326 --> 01:09:32,159 MAUREEN: One of the most offensive things 1500 01:09:32,243 --> 01:09:34,993 about Woodstock '99 was that these guys 1501 01:09:35,076 --> 01:09:37,368 who were relics of the '60s felt that this was something 1502 01:09:37,451 --> 01:09:40,702 that Gen X needed, that we somehow needed 1503 01:09:40,785 --> 01:09:44,159 our own experience of what they had. 1504 01:09:44,243 --> 01:09:45,618 ♪ Burn crosses ♪ 1505 01:09:50,243 --> 01:09:51,743 ♪ Killing in the name of ♪ 1506 01:09:51,827 --> 01:09:53,827 WESLEY: The idea of older generations 1507 01:09:53,910 --> 01:09:57,159 subjecting younger generations to the way they wish things 1508 01:09:57,243 --> 01:09:59,493 would be, is such an American thing. 1509 01:09:59,576 --> 01:10:01,743 And accepting that your moment 1510 01:10:01,827 --> 01:10:04,827 has passed is really hard for people to fathom. 1511 01:10:04,910 --> 01:10:07,743 And you know a lot of what doesn't get done in this country 1512 01:10:07,827 --> 01:10:10,159 doesn't get done because older people 1513 01:10:10,243 --> 01:10:11,284 are scared of younger people. 1514 01:10:11,368 --> 01:10:13,243 ♪ Now you do What they told you ♪ 1515 01:10:13,326 --> 01:10:15,827 MAUREEN: No one was asking for another Woodstock. 1516 01:10:15,910 --> 01:10:18,076 There was no desire for it. 1517 01:10:18,159 --> 01:10:20,702 To me it's the narcissism and the self-regard 1518 01:10:20,785 --> 01:10:25,243 of the baby boomer generation which continues to hang on 1519 01:10:25,326 --> 01:10:27,868 to power in every way in America. 1520 01:10:27,952 --> 01:10:30,243 It's political, it's economic, it's cultural. 1521 01:10:30,326 --> 01:10:32,201 Like the reins have not been turned over. 1522 01:10:32,284 --> 01:10:35,535 They will not be turned over until they're all probably gone. 1523 01:10:38,493 --> 01:10:40,827 ♪ Fuck you, I won't do What you tell me ♪ 1524 01:10:40,910 --> 01:10:43,243 ALL: ♪ Fuck you, I won't do What you tell me ♪ 1525 01:10:43,326 --> 01:10:46,159 STEVEN: In 1999, you're starting to see instances 1526 01:10:46,243 --> 01:10:49,284 where power dynamics were changing in the country. 1527 01:10:49,368 --> 01:10:52,410 And technology was gonna make it impossible 1528 01:10:52,493 --> 01:10:55,326 for the world to continue to be that way in the new century. 1529 01:10:55,410 --> 01:10:58,910 -♪ (MUSIC STOPS) ♪ -(CROWD CHEERING) 1530 01:11:03,076 --> 01:11:04,993 -♪ (MILD MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ -Welcome to Hastings. 1531 01:11:05,076 --> 01:11:06,993 NEWS REPORTER: Most of us head out to a music store 1532 01:11:07,076 --> 01:11:09,284 to buy CDs, but not Mike Chestworth. 1533 01:11:09,368 --> 01:11:12,535 He goes to napster.com to get all the music he wants 1534 01:11:12,618 --> 01:11:15,076 and he doesn't pay for it. 1535 01:11:15,159 --> 01:11:18,368 STEVEN: For years you had people who were being forced to spend 1536 01:11:18,451 --> 01:11:21,535 18 dollars on a CD when they only wanted one song. 1537 01:11:21,618 --> 01:11:23,952 And there was really no recourse for those people. 1538 01:11:24,034 --> 01:11:27,993 So, when there was finally a means to circumvent 1539 01:11:28,076 --> 01:11:30,284 the record companies in the form of Napster. 1540 01:11:30,368 --> 01:11:32,702 I think people knew that they were stealing music 1541 01:11:32,785 --> 01:11:34,243 but they didn't care. 1542 01:11:34,326 --> 01:11:35,952 Part of what we're trying to do here is make 1543 01:11:36,034 --> 01:11:39,827 people understand that what they're doing is illegal. 1544 01:11:39,910 --> 01:11:42,076 I'm not even gonna get into the moral issue. 1545 01:11:43,827 --> 01:11:46,284 MAUREEN: When Napster came along in '99 1546 01:11:46,368 --> 01:11:49,868 and it looked like it was gonna profoundly shift the way 1547 01:11:49,952 --> 01:11:52,785 that music was produced and sold and consumed, 1548 01:11:52,868 --> 01:11:56,034 and what it meant for artists and their revenue streams, 1549 01:11:56,118 --> 01:11:59,785 Lars Ulrich had the very unpopular opinion 1550 01:11:59,868 --> 01:12:01,576 that this was not good. 1551 01:12:01,660 --> 01:12:03,743 It sort of seemed like a cranky old man voice, 1552 01:12:03,827 --> 01:12:05,702 like you can't get in the way of technology. 1553 01:12:05,785 --> 01:12:07,743 In all due respect to Lars and Metallica, 1554 01:12:07,827 --> 01:12:11,410 I look at Napster as power going back to the people. 1555 01:12:11,493 --> 01:12:13,618 DAVE MUSTAINE: For me I-- see I remember back 1556 01:12:13,702 --> 01:12:16,159 when I was in Metallica that we used to trade tapes. 1557 01:12:16,243 --> 01:12:18,201 That's how we even discovered bands. 1558 01:12:18,284 --> 01:12:21,743 I don't know, I can't blame Lars for doing the things 1559 01:12:21,827 --> 01:12:22,952 that he does. 1560 01:12:23,827 --> 01:12:27,159 He-- who knows why a guy does that? 1561 01:12:27,243 --> 01:12:29,201 I mean does he have enough money? 1562 01:12:29,284 --> 01:12:30,618 Probably, right? 1563 01:12:31,952 --> 01:12:33,868 I mean I can't-- my brain's going 1564 01:12:33,952 --> 01:12:35,368 "Don't say it, Dave, don't say it, Dave, 1565 01:12:35,451 --> 01:12:36,702 don't say it, Dave." (CHUCKLES) 1566 01:12:36,785 --> 01:12:39,702 And you're going, "Say it, Dave, say it, Dave, say it, Dave." 1567 01:12:39,785 --> 01:12:40,952 (CHUCKLES) 1568 01:12:41,618 --> 01:12:43,284 (CROWD CHEERING) 1569 01:12:45,201 --> 01:12:47,326 We are Metallica. 1570 01:12:49,326 --> 01:12:52,451 And this is what we do best, motherfucker! 1571 01:12:52,535 --> 01:12:55,827 ♪ ("FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS" BY METALLICA PLAYING) ♪ 1572 01:12:55,910 --> 01:12:57,326 (CHEERS) 1573 01:12:59,743 --> 01:13:01,201 (ALL CHEERING) 1574 01:13:06,159 --> 01:13:07,743 DAVID: That second night when Dave and I went 1575 01:13:07,827 --> 01:13:10,076 to see Metallica. He was so excited, 1576 01:13:10,159 --> 01:13:11,576 and there was just that very much, like... 1577 01:13:11,660 --> 01:13:13,868 (INHALES SHARPLY) "This is it, this is the goal, 1578 01:13:13,952 --> 01:13:16,952 this is why I'm here. I'm gonna get in the mosh pit. 1579 01:13:17,034 --> 01:13:18,326 This is my Everest." 1580 01:13:20,910 --> 01:13:23,243 I had never been in a mosh pit before. 1581 01:13:23,326 --> 01:13:26,368 I was a little uncomfortable. And people are crowd surfing, 1582 01:13:26,451 --> 01:13:28,618 and you're kinda like getting kicked in the head 1583 01:13:28,702 --> 01:13:30,159 and whatever, but it's cool. 1584 01:13:33,368 --> 01:13:35,451 MIKE: It was so intense and people just doing 1585 01:13:35,535 --> 01:13:37,493 their thing in the mosh pit like throwing people around. 1586 01:13:37,576 --> 01:13:40,118 And you'd feel like you could just get trampled 1587 01:13:40,201 --> 01:13:41,660 and nobody would care about you. 1588 01:13:41,743 --> 01:13:43,326 ♪ (TRIPPY MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 1589 01:13:44,910 --> 01:13:48,743 It was a weird mass of humanity where it was just a sea 1590 01:13:48,827 --> 01:13:52,076 and you just kind of undulated in all four directions. 1591 01:13:53,493 --> 01:13:55,159 MIKE: It's so tightly packed together 1592 01:13:55,243 --> 01:13:56,702 and it's so claustrophobic. 1593 01:13:56,785 --> 01:13:58,576 You literally cannot control your own body. 1594 01:13:58,660 --> 01:14:01,702 You'd feel your feet getting lifted up off the ground 1595 01:14:01,785 --> 01:14:05,201 and you move with the crowd because the organism 1596 01:14:05,284 --> 01:14:08,868 becomes stronger than any individual person. 1597 01:14:11,368 --> 01:14:13,034 DAVID: I just get to a point where I'm like, 1598 01:14:13,118 --> 01:14:14,827 "This isn't for me," and I feel bad 1599 01:14:14,910 --> 01:14:16,410 because Dave's been cool, you know, 1600 01:14:16,493 --> 01:14:20,618 but he recognizes even, like, this isn't my scene, 1601 01:14:20,702 --> 01:14:22,952 you know, so, he's like, "You can go if you want." 1602 01:14:23,034 --> 01:14:24,785 I'm like, "Well, I'm gonna try to go that way, 1603 01:14:24,868 --> 01:14:26,243 I'm gonna try to go back." 1604 01:14:27,952 --> 01:14:29,827 I don't know how many people I walked through, 1605 01:14:29,910 --> 01:14:31,326 I don't know how many football fields 1606 01:14:31,410 --> 01:14:34,910 I walked through, but I got out of there. 1607 01:14:34,993 --> 01:14:38,076 I'm usually the last person at things that I go to. 1608 01:14:38,159 --> 01:14:41,118 But by Saturday night I couldn't take it. 1609 01:14:41,201 --> 01:14:42,410 And I knew that Sunday 1610 01:14:42,493 --> 01:14:44,618 was going to be even more brutal. 1611 01:14:44,702 --> 01:14:46,993 -(INDISTINCT CHATTER) -♪ (MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 1612 01:14:47,076 --> 01:14:50,118 BEN: After Metallica, they had DJs every night 1613 01:14:50,201 --> 01:14:52,326 and I've never really been to a rave 1614 01:14:52,410 --> 01:14:53,993 or I wasn't really into DJs, 1615 01:14:54,076 --> 01:14:56,201 but I thought, "Hey, we're here. Like, let's check it out." 1616 01:14:56,284 --> 01:15:00,493 ♪ (UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 1617 01:15:03,493 --> 01:15:08,535 MAUREEN: I felt the rave hangar was very cynical, very soulless. 1618 01:15:08,618 --> 01:15:12,743 "Let's shove in some DJs, and some drugs, and some kids, 1619 01:15:12,827 --> 01:15:14,952 and we'll just keep this going all night." 1620 01:15:16,493 --> 01:15:18,535 MOBY: We were excited, this is one of the biggest show 1621 01:15:18,618 --> 01:15:21,118 I'd ever played, you know, it was Woodstock. 1622 01:15:22,034 --> 01:15:23,535 And the rave tent was supposed 1623 01:15:23,618 --> 01:15:26,243 to be sort of like an idyllic separate area 1624 01:15:26,326 --> 01:15:28,410 from Woodstock, but it still had been infected 1625 01:15:28,493 --> 01:15:33,576 by that like, broken, dusty, sad, angry vibe. 1626 01:15:33,660 --> 01:15:36,702 ♪ (UPBEAT SONG PLAYING) ♪ 1627 01:15:36,785 --> 01:15:39,243 MAUREEN: It made no sense to me, whatsoever. 1628 01:15:39,326 --> 01:15:44,284 There's no crossover, there's no world in which a kid 1629 01:15:44,368 --> 01:15:46,576 who is there for Limp Bizkit 1630 01:15:46,660 --> 01:15:50,660 is also, like, looking to go do ecstasy in the rave tent 1631 01:15:50,743 --> 01:15:53,410 and like bliss out to Moby, it's just not happening. 1632 01:15:53,493 --> 01:15:56,076 ♪ (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 1633 01:15:56,159 --> 01:15:57,618 MOBY: We walked offstage and we were like, 1634 01:15:57,702 --> 01:15:59,910 "Get out of here, like, we need to leave right now." 1635 01:15:59,993 --> 01:16:02,576 Our plan had been to park up and stay for the whole weekend, 1636 01:16:02,660 --> 01:16:05,576 but that, like, atavistic part of our brains 1637 01:16:05,660 --> 01:16:08,618 -collectively said, "Leave now." -♪ (HEAVY MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 1638 01:16:08,702 --> 01:16:11,118 It's bad and it's not getting better. 1639 01:16:12,326 --> 01:16:15,410 MAUREEN: To have music going, acts going, 1640 01:16:15,493 --> 01:16:17,034 like churning through the day 1641 01:16:17,118 --> 01:16:19,576 into night 'til 5:00 a.m. and there's no rest, 1642 01:16:19,660 --> 01:16:21,076 there's no breaks, there's no rhythm, 1643 01:16:21,159 --> 01:16:23,368 there's no come down, 1644 01:16:23,451 --> 01:16:25,243 what are you expecting to happen? 1645 01:16:25,326 --> 01:16:28,952 Everybody's going like this, and they can't sustain it. 1646 01:16:29,034 --> 01:16:33,952 It's gonna crash. It's gonna crash in a very big, 1647 01:16:34,034 --> 01:16:36,535 cinematic, cataclysmic way. 1648 01:16:42,952 --> 01:16:44,368 (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 1649 01:16:49,535 --> 01:16:51,910 JESSICA: The last morning, I remember 1650 01:16:51,993 --> 01:16:53,618 for a sleeping arrangement it was-- 1651 01:16:53,702 --> 01:16:57,076 I fell asleep on the wood chips. 1652 01:16:57,159 --> 01:16:59,702 What woke me up basically was someone yelling out, 1653 01:16:59,785 --> 01:17:03,702 "Tear down the wall! Tear down the wall!" 1654 01:17:03,785 --> 01:17:06,368 And I was like, "Holy shit, Pink Floyd is here?" 1655 01:17:06,451 --> 01:17:08,576 And I was like, "This is what I'm talking about, man!" 1656 01:17:08,660 --> 01:17:09,993 I was like, "This is what the Woodstock 1657 01:17:10,076 --> 01:17:11,493 I wanted it to be." Like, they're gonna 1658 01:17:11,576 --> 01:17:13,993 have someone unexpected like that to pop out. 1659 01:17:14,076 --> 01:17:18,827 And I ran and it was just people basically pushing the wall down. 1660 01:17:18,910 --> 01:17:20,243 (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 1661 01:17:26,743 --> 01:17:28,326 JAKE: By Sunday, a lot of people 1662 01:17:28,410 --> 01:17:31,034 that were security, that were peace patrol quit. 1663 01:17:31,118 --> 01:17:33,618 And essentially I could have worked 24 hours 1664 01:17:33,702 --> 01:17:36,076 a day for all three days if I wanted to. 1665 01:17:36,159 --> 01:17:38,368 We found that... (CHUCKLING) ...basically 1666 01:17:38,451 --> 01:17:40,827 the very first day, a lot of the peace patrol 1667 01:17:40,910 --> 01:17:42,493 got their credential and they got their shirt, 1668 01:17:42,576 --> 01:17:43,910 and then they just put their credential 1669 01:17:44,034 --> 01:17:46,410 in their pocket, and just waded off into the crowd. 1670 01:17:46,493 --> 01:17:50,868 And them attendees were left to their own devices. 1671 01:17:50,952 --> 01:17:52,451 (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 1672 01:17:53,535 --> 01:17:54,785 (ALL CHEERING) 1673 01:17:57,868 --> 01:18:00,034 GIRL: All these crazy people breaking down this wall, 1674 01:18:00,118 --> 01:18:02,368 I think it's badass. I know that it took time 1675 01:18:02,451 --> 01:18:06,993 to put up, but it's kinda like a trademark of Woodstock '99. 1676 01:18:07,076 --> 01:18:09,368 I'm just destroying the wall for fun, 1677 01:18:09,451 --> 01:18:12,326 -just 'cause I'm at Woodstock. -MAN: We want Hendrix's face. 1678 01:18:12,410 --> 01:18:14,952 "Why not?" That's the real question. 1679 01:18:15,034 --> 01:18:17,201 We got bored. There's nothing else to do. 1680 01:18:17,284 --> 01:18:18,785 ♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 1681 01:18:20,451 --> 01:18:23,827 I think it just symbolizes the disrespect that people have. 1682 01:18:23,910 --> 01:18:26,326 I mean, people spent a lot of time working on this. 1683 01:18:27,118 --> 01:18:28,410 You know it symbolizes peace 1684 01:18:28,493 --> 01:18:29,868 and they're just like going crazy. 1685 01:18:29,952 --> 01:18:32,243 BOY: It's been a great time, but there are a lot 1686 01:18:32,326 --> 01:18:35,618 of really stupid humans around here. 1687 01:18:35,702 --> 01:18:37,827 Yeah, all we've been hearing is "Show us your tits, 1688 01:18:37,910 --> 01:18:39,034 show us your tits." 1689 01:18:39,118 --> 01:18:41,868 MEN: Flash your tits, flash your tits! 1690 01:18:41,952 --> 01:18:44,910 Flash your tits, flash your tits! 1691 01:18:44,993 --> 01:18:47,910 Flash your tits, flash your tits! 1692 01:18:47,993 --> 01:18:50,576 Flash your tits, flash your tits! 1693 01:18:50,660 --> 01:18:54,201 Flash your tits, flash your tits! 1694 01:18:55,618 --> 01:18:57,243 DAVE: I was taking like a five-minute break 1695 01:18:57,326 --> 01:18:58,952 outside of the dispatch office. 1696 01:18:59,034 --> 01:19:00,993 And one of the medic units pulls up 1697 01:19:01,076 --> 01:19:03,410 and there's someone in the front seat with them 1698 01:19:03,493 --> 01:19:04,743 that I didn't recognize. 1699 01:19:04,827 --> 01:19:08,660 I was like looked and turned out to be like some little girl. 1700 01:19:08,743 --> 01:19:11,785 The medic jumped out, he's not wearing his shirt, 1701 01:19:11,868 --> 01:19:14,243 and grabbed his two walkies and yelled over to me, 1702 01:19:14,326 --> 01:19:17,410 "Yo, do me a favor. Watch that girl. 1703 01:19:17,493 --> 01:19:19,243 Don't let anyone near her." 1704 01:19:19,326 --> 01:19:22,952 And about two minutes later, he comes out with a nurse. 1705 01:19:23,034 --> 01:19:26,118 So I back up a little bit, he opens the door, 1706 01:19:26,201 --> 01:19:28,493 the nurse goes in, she has a blanket. 1707 01:19:28,576 --> 01:19:30,868 She unfurls the blanket. 1708 01:19:30,952 --> 01:19:35,618 She puts it over the girl, takes her out of the cab, 1709 01:19:35,702 --> 01:19:38,159 and you know, basically guides her 1710 01:19:38,243 --> 01:19:41,410 into the main medical. 1711 01:19:41,493 --> 01:19:44,034 After that, I look at the medic, the medic looks at me. 1712 01:19:44,118 --> 01:19:46,451 And I'm like, "Dude, what's up with that?" 1713 01:19:46,535 --> 01:19:48,368 And he just looks at me and he's just like, 1714 01:19:48,451 --> 01:19:51,660 "Dude, they're just savages. 1715 01:19:51,743 --> 01:19:54,326 -Just straight up savages." -(INDISTINCT CHATTER) 1716 01:19:54,410 --> 01:19:59,326 DAVE: And that's when suddenly the light bulb went off 1717 01:19:59,410 --> 01:20:01,493 in my head, and I was like, 1718 01:20:01,576 --> 01:20:03,743 "Oh, she's wearing his shirt... 1719 01:20:04,910 --> 01:20:07,034 because she had no clothes... 1720 01:20:07,910 --> 01:20:11,410 because... she was sexually assaulted." 1721 01:20:11,493 --> 01:20:12,785 ♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 1722 01:20:12,868 --> 01:20:16,785 DAVE: This wasn't Woodstock '69. This wasn't Woodstock '94. 1723 01:20:16,868 --> 01:20:21,660 This was gonna be Woodstock 1999 where love might be free, 1724 01:20:21,743 --> 01:20:24,076 it's not necessarily gonna be given, 1725 01:20:24,159 --> 01:20:25,535 but it's also gonna be taken. 1726 01:20:25,618 --> 01:20:27,034 MAN: Hey, guys, back. Give her some room. 1727 01:20:27,118 --> 01:20:28,535 You're gonna scare her. 1728 01:20:28,618 --> 01:20:32,201 JOHN: There's no question that a few incidents took place, 1729 01:20:32,284 --> 01:20:33,952 but if you go back in the records 1730 01:20:34,034 --> 01:20:36,243 of the police and state police and stuff, 1731 01:20:36,326 --> 01:20:40,451 you're not talking about a hundred, or even fifty. 1732 01:20:40,535 --> 01:20:43,743 -You're talking about ten. -MAN: Woodstock '99! 1733 01:20:43,827 --> 01:20:45,410 JOHN: I am critical 1734 01:20:45,493 --> 01:20:47,326 of the hundreds of women that were walking around 1735 01:20:47,410 --> 01:20:50,159 with no clothes on. And expecting not to be touched. 1736 01:20:50,243 --> 01:20:51,702 They shouldn't have been touched. 1737 01:20:51,785 --> 01:20:55,451 And I condemn it. But, you know, I think that women 1738 01:20:55,535 --> 01:20:58,034 that were running around naked, 1739 01:20:58,118 --> 01:21:01,493 you know, are at least partially to blame for that. 1740 01:21:01,576 --> 01:21:03,660 ♪ (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 1741 01:21:03,743 --> 01:21:07,159 MAUREEN: I mean, seriously, the audacity of these guys. 1742 01:21:08,201 --> 01:21:11,493 How dare you say it's our fault 1743 01:21:11,576 --> 01:21:13,827 that men can't control themselves, 1744 01:21:13,910 --> 01:21:15,702 so what does that say about men? 1745 01:21:18,660 --> 01:21:21,785 One girl told me that she found herself 1746 01:21:21,868 --> 01:21:25,451 in the crowd surrounded by young men 1747 01:21:25,535 --> 01:21:30,243 and that there were three arms on each of her limbs, 1748 01:21:30,326 --> 01:21:35,451 and that they were penetrating her digitally. 1749 01:21:35,535 --> 01:21:39,326 And that she heard one of them yell, "Rip her apart." 1750 01:21:40,993 --> 01:21:43,660 When it was finally over and she was just able 1751 01:21:43,743 --> 01:21:46,243 to just run out of there, 1752 01:21:46,326 --> 01:21:49,034 she didn't even really think to complain to anyone, 1753 01:21:49,118 --> 01:21:51,576 to find anyone to report this to, 1754 01:21:51,660 --> 01:21:56,159 and I think there must have been an overwhelming sense 1755 01:21:56,243 --> 01:21:59,618 given the sheer anarchy of what was going on 1756 01:21:59,702 --> 01:22:01,993 that, you know, "What would be the point?" 1757 01:22:02,076 --> 01:22:04,743 Over there, we camp out over there. 1758 01:22:04,827 --> 01:22:05,993 If you guys walk over there, 1759 01:22:06,076 --> 01:22:08,034 you're gonna hear some noises from me. 1760 01:22:08,118 --> 01:22:09,910 Come on, bring everything you got to 'em. 1761 01:22:09,993 --> 01:22:11,618 We'll fucking party our asses off. 1762 01:22:11,702 --> 01:22:13,535 -(INDISTINCT CHATTER) -Yeah! 1763 01:22:13,618 --> 01:22:18,702 LIZ: There was a very masculine centric attitude going on 1764 01:22:18,785 --> 01:22:22,368 that "I can do and take what I want here at Woodstock." 1765 01:22:22,451 --> 01:22:24,618 BOY: Well, I'm just saying that if you just do whatever you want-- 1766 01:22:24,702 --> 01:22:27,368 The laws of normal society just don't apply here... 1767 01:22:27,451 --> 01:22:28,410 (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 1768 01:22:28,493 --> 01:22:29,785 Show us your tits for the media. 1769 01:22:29,868 --> 01:22:31,827 GIRL: No, we're not lifting our shirts up! 1770 01:22:31,910 --> 01:22:36,368 I felt unsafe and so I left for my own security. 1771 01:22:36,451 --> 01:22:39,493 Based on what I saw, I knew that there was 1772 01:22:39,576 --> 01:22:41,493 so many women that didn't tell their stories 1773 01:22:41,576 --> 01:22:43,952 or they certainly weren't going to the police. 1774 01:22:44,034 --> 01:22:46,451 I wonder where they are and how they're doing. 1775 01:22:46,535 --> 01:22:49,535 And so we started this little organization 1776 01:22:49,618 --> 01:22:51,076 called Fans Everywhere, 1777 01:22:51,159 --> 01:22:54,660 and we put a little thing out on the internet saying, 1778 01:22:54,743 --> 01:22:57,284 "Did you have a bad experience at Woodstock? 1779 01:22:57,368 --> 01:23:00,493 Do you need somebody to talk to? Do you need some advice? 1780 01:23:00,576 --> 01:23:02,243 We promise it's going to be anonymous. 1781 01:23:02,326 --> 01:23:03,993 We promise we're not gonna tell anybody, 1782 01:23:04,076 --> 01:23:05,993 but we're here to support you." 1783 01:23:06,076 --> 01:23:10,493 And I got dozens upon dozens of emails 1784 01:23:10,576 --> 01:23:12,952 from women, young women. 1785 01:23:13,034 --> 01:23:17,118 Women as young as 14 years old, saying 1786 01:23:17,201 --> 01:23:19,702 "I had a bottle shoved up my vagina," 1787 01:23:19,785 --> 01:23:23,368 or, "I had all of my clothes ripped off in a mosh pit," 1788 01:23:23,451 --> 01:23:27,243 or "I was raped in a tent on Saturday night." 1789 01:23:27,326 --> 01:23:28,702 "And I was screaming. 1790 01:23:28,785 --> 01:23:30,993 And nobody did anything to stop it." 1791 01:23:31,076 --> 01:23:35,993 And then to have all these girls say, "But was it my fault?" 1792 01:23:39,034 --> 01:23:43,118 (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 1793 01:23:47,451 --> 01:23:48,618 DAVID: I woke up Sunday morning. 1794 01:23:48,702 --> 01:23:52,326 I kinda heard my brothers Rob and Brian talking. 1795 01:23:52,410 --> 01:23:56,284 I come out of my tent. And there's no Dave. 1796 01:23:56,368 --> 01:23:58,284 Nobody really knows where he is. 1797 01:23:58,368 --> 01:24:00,368 But we're thinking, you know, 1798 01:24:00,451 --> 01:24:02,076 "Dave was looking for a good time." 1799 01:24:02,159 --> 01:24:05,910 So we wouldn't be surprised if he went to the raves 1800 01:24:05,993 --> 01:24:08,076 that were out all night or made some friends 1801 01:24:08,159 --> 01:24:10,243 'cause he was an easy dude to like. 1802 01:24:10,326 --> 01:24:13,535 ♪ (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 1803 01:24:13,618 --> 01:24:16,076 DAVID: As the day kinda went along, you know, 1804 01:24:16,159 --> 01:24:17,660 it kinda goes from that, 1805 01:24:17,743 --> 01:24:20,743 "Okay, he'll turn up," to "Where the hell are you?" 1806 01:24:20,827 --> 01:24:24,201 to, you know, "Where are you?" 1807 01:24:25,827 --> 01:24:27,576 I don't think any of us were really overly concerned. 1808 01:24:27,660 --> 01:24:29,243 It was almost even like there was more anger, 1809 01:24:29,326 --> 01:24:31,410 like, "Where the hell is this guy?" 1810 01:24:31,493 --> 01:24:33,368 "What the heck, dude?" "Like, 1811 01:24:33,451 --> 01:24:36,076 the day's gonna start, and we're leaving today." 1812 01:24:36,159 --> 01:24:38,034 "We wanna know what the plan is." 1813 01:24:39,201 --> 01:24:42,743 So, we start the search and kinda looking around. 1814 01:24:42,827 --> 01:24:44,952 Like, I would head out to the east stage. 1815 01:24:45,034 --> 01:24:46,660 We'd take turns going to the hangar, 1816 01:24:46,743 --> 01:24:47,868 like that central place 1817 01:24:47,952 --> 01:24:51,451 where the board was, and kinda the first aid was. 1818 01:24:51,535 --> 01:24:53,952 Well, we just keep walking, keep walking, keep walking. 1819 01:24:54,034 --> 01:24:56,284 And we keep going back, and, you know, 1820 01:24:56,368 --> 01:24:58,493 I don't think anybody had any real sense 1821 01:24:58,576 --> 01:25:04,618 of dread or fear. It was still more of the "He better be hurt 1822 01:25:04,702 --> 01:25:06,827 because I'm kinda getting pissed now." 1823 01:25:08,118 --> 01:25:12,243 And then Rob was the one who finally found out 1824 01:25:12,326 --> 01:25:14,034 what had happened to Dave. 1825 01:25:16,368 --> 01:25:19,034 They said it was hyperthermia. 1826 01:25:19,118 --> 01:25:22,201 His body temperature rose too high 1827 01:25:22,284 --> 01:25:24,827 when he was at Metallica. 1828 01:25:24,910 --> 01:25:28,827 But for some reason they administered, you know, 1829 01:25:28,910 --> 01:25:31,535 paddles on him, in line with what they were thinking 1830 01:25:31,618 --> 01:25:34,368 -that he was OD'ing. -♪ (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 1831 01:25:38,910 --> 01:25:40,993 DAVID: It was crazy because we didn't do anything. 1832 01:25:41,076 --> 01:25:44,159 (CHUCKLES) We didn't do drugs, we didn't bring drugs, 1833 01:25:44,243 --> 01:25:47,284 we weren't drinking. And then you would hear 1834 01:25:47,368 --> 01:25:49,368 nobody really seemed to take his temperature 1835 01:25:49,451 --> 01:25:52,493 'cause they didn't have the core thermometers, 1836 01:25:52,576 --> 01:25:56,034 that they weren't treating him properly. 1837 01:25:56,118 --> 01:25:58,576 They were not prepared. 1838 01:26:01,535 --> 01:26:04,743 Dave was going to a show to go see his favorite band. 1839 01:26:09,451 --> 01:26:10,493 I just... 1840 01:26:11,785 --> 01:26:15,118 It wasn't really something you ever thought, you know... 1841 01:26:19,034 --> 01:26:21,284 I just remember thinking like... (SOBBING) 1842 01:26:22,451 --> 01:26:23,743 "This didn't happen... 1843 01:26:24,743 --> 01:26:27,118 and somebody's gotta go call his mom." 1844 01:26:31,451 --> 01:26:33,076 NEWS REPORTER: I need to talk to you as well 1845 01:26:33,159 --> 01:26:35,868 regarding public safety because it was such 1846 01:26:35,952 --> 01:26:37,284 a dangerous atmosphere out there. 1847 01:26:37,368 --> 01:26:38,535 I was backstage. 1848 01:26:38,618 --> 01:26:41,368 The mosh pit medical unit looked like 1849 01:26:41,451 --> 01:26:44,243 a Vietnam triage unit, and not only that, 1850 01:26:44,326 --> 01:26:46,785 but MTV News was forced to get off of home base. 1851 01:26:46,868 --> 01:26:48,451 We felt that it was too dangerous, 1852 01:26:48,535 --> 01:26:50,910 there were people throwing glass bottles everywhere. 1853 01:26:50,993 --> 01:26:53,868 In all of the concerts I've seen-- come on, there were kids. 1854 01:26:53,952 --> 01:26:56,576 I talked to kids later who were petrified out there. 1855 01:26:56,660 --> 01:26:59,284 -And I'm sorry I'm not-- -JOHN: Excuse me, do you have a question? 1856 01:26:59,368 --> 01:27:01,326 Can I answer your question or you wanna editorialize? 1857 01:27:01,410 --> 01:27:02,910 If you'd like to editorialize, come on up 1858 01:27:02,993 --> 01:27:04,785 and you can editorialize for everybody. 1859 01:27:04,868 --> 01:27:08,410 Can I answer the question if you'll stop talking? 1860 01:27:08,493 --> 01:27:11,326 MTV set the tone because they would 1861 01:27:11,410 --> 01:27:15,785 only really go on the air with people who were pissed off. 1862 01:27:15,868 --> 01:27:18,451 You think that aggro vibe 1863 01:27:18,535 --> 01:27:19,868 had anything to do with what happened? 1864 01:27:19,952 --> 01:27:21,243 SHERYL CROW: Yeah, I mean, I definitely think that 1865 01:27:21,326 --> 01:27:24,326 that's what drew the large, young, white, male, 1866 01:27:24,410 --> 01:27:26,410 frustrated, upper-middle class, 1867 01:27:26,493 --> 01:27:28,076 "I've been given everything and still I'm mad, 1868 01:27:28,159 --> 01:27:31,284 but I'm not really sure why I'm mad," kind of attitude. 1869 01:27:31,368 --> 01:27:33,243 CARSON: As things started to go down 1870 01:27:33,326 --> 01:27:35,451 I remember feeling like things were literally going out 1871 01:27:35,535 --> 01:27:38,243 of control and there just became a quintessential moment 1872 01:27:38,326 --> 01:27:40,702 where we were told by our bosses 1873 01:27:40,785 --> 01:27:43,451 "MTV and, like, Viacom can no longer 1874 01:27:43,535 --> 01:27:46,910 guarantee your safety." Like, "Run for it", sort of thing. 1875 01:27:46,993 --> 01:27:50,118 And so we packed a van and we drove in this white van. 1876 01:27:50,201 --> 01:27:52,451 I remember just, like, speeding through corn fields, 1877 01:27:52,535 --> 01:27:54,827 like, to get away from the Woodstock set. 1878 01:27:54,910 --> 01:27:57,702 -And it really was terrifying. -♪ (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 1879 01:27:57,785 --> 01:27:59,785 JOHN: MTV news made it into as if 1880 01:27:59,868 --> 01:28:03,118 it was an animal fest, and it just wasn't. 1881 01:28:03,201 --> 01:28:05,118 Bloodthirsty maniacs trying to kill me. 1882 01:28:05,201 --> 01:28:06,993 It was disgusting. I was molested. 1883 01:28:07,076 --> 01:28:09,034 And I hate all men now. 1884 01:28:09,118 --> 01:28:12,201 JOHN: So it terribly got manipulated by MTV, 1885 01:28:12,284 --> 01:28:13,910 especially Kurt Loder. 1886 01:28:15,076 --> 01:28:16,910 He just wasn't on the team. 1887 01:28:16,993 --> 01:28:19,451 There have really been some scary moments here 1888 01:28:19,535 --> 01:28:20,827 just with crowd violence. 1889 01:28:20,910 --> 01:28:22,702 I'm just laughing. I think Michael, at one point, 1890 01:28:22,785 --> 01:28:24,159 called him a war journalist. 1891 01:28:24,243 --> 01:28:26,535 That was really what he wanted to be 1892 01:28:26,618 --> 01:28:28,993 and this was as close as he was gonna come. 1893 01:28:29,076 --> 01:28:31,785 ♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 1894 01:28:31,868 --> 01:28:33,702 JAKE: A film crew came through 1895 01:28:33,785 --> 01:28:35,785 and they had the promoters with them. 1896 01:28:35,868 --> 01:28:39,201 And they stopped right in front of us basically 1897 01:28:39,284 --> 01:28:40,368 and did a little interview. 1898 01:28:40,451 --> 01:28:44,243 And they talked about how great everything was 1899 01:28:44,326 --> 01:28:45,993 and what a success it was. 1900 01:28:46,076 --> 01:28:48,827 And we're looking at each other, thinking like 1901 01:28:48,910 --> 01:28:50,910 "What are these guys talking about?" 1902 01:28:51,034 --> 01:28:53,243 Knowing full well that in a few hours 1903 01:28:53,326 --> 01:28:56,910 this place was gonna turn into a complete shit show. 1904 01:28:58,201 --> 01:29:00,201 INTERVIEWER: We are backstage at Woodstock '99 1905 01:29:00,284 --> 01:29:03,535 with the Woodstock organizers, Michael Lang and John Scher. 1906 01:29:03,618 --> 01:29:06,868 How's it going? You look all happy, things must be going very well. 1907 01:29:06,952 --> 01:29:09,034 JOHN: So far, so good. The music's been amazing. 1908 01:29:09,118 --> 01:29:10,910 -Right. -JOHN: Kids are having a good time. 1909 01:29:10,993 --> 01:29:13,368 The biggest problem has been a little bit 1910 01:29:13,451 --> 01:29:15,660 of too warm temperature, 1911 01:29:15,743 --> 01:29:17,618 but other than that we're doing great. 1912 01:29:17,702 --> 01:29:21,201 -MC: Woodstock! -(CROWD CHEERING) 1913 01:29:21,284 --> 01:29:25,785 MC: Please welcome Atlantic recording artist Jewel! 1914 01:29:25,868 --> 01:29:27,618 (CROWD CHEERING) 1915 01:29:28,910 --> 01:29:32,535 JEWEL: When I went out, the crowd felt strange. 1916 01:29:32,618 --> 01:29:35,493 They felt really tired and very depleted. 1917 01:29:36,827 --> 01:29:39,868 Felt like there was a grey, dense fog 1918 01:29:39,952 --> 01:29:41,451 hanging over everything, 1919 01:29:41,535 --> 01:29:43,076 and for me to try and figure out, 1920 01:29:43,159 --> 01:29:44,910 "How do I cut through that?" 1921 01:29:44,993 --> 01:29:47,201 "How do I create a tone, or a voice, or a sound 1922 01:29:47,284 --> 01:29:49,993 that's gonna cut through this really strange, 1923 01:29:50,076 --> 01:29:51,410 heavy energy," 1924 01:29:51,493 --> 01:29:54,535 was definitely at the forefront of my mind while I'm singing. 1925 01:29:54,618 --> 01:29:57,410 I didn't know what was going on particularly. 1926 01:29:57,493 --> 01:29:59,952 -But you could just feel it. -♪ (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 1927 01:30:00,034 --> 01:30:02,827 MAN: I think we should leave. It's so hot in here. 1928 01:30:03,493 --> 01:30:05,076 I'm so weak. 1929 01:30:05,159 --> 01:30:07,910 -I can't feel my legs anymore. -BOY: Me neither. 1930 01:30:07,993 --> 01:30:10,535 STEVEN: The thing, I think, that amazes me most 1931 01:30:10,618 --> 01:30:14,493 is that so many people chose to stay. 1932 01:30:14,576 --> 01:30:16,368 It does seem like mass psychosis, 1933 01:30:16,451 --> 01:30:18,451 at some point on Sunday. 1934 01:30:18,535 --> 01:30:20,118 Because otherwise I have no idea like, 1935 01:30:20,201 --> 01:30:22,410 why the hell you're still there. 1936 01:30:22,493 --> 01:30:24,702 -It's filthy. -BOY: Piss and shit everywhere. 1937 01:30:24,785 --> 01:30:26,618 Piss and shit everywhere. 1938 01:30:26,702 --> 01:30:28,034 KEN: And you could just tell, like, 1939 01:30:28,118 --> 01:30:31,201 people were not having fun and happy to be there anymore. 1940 01:30:31,284 --> 01:30:33,451 And after Jewel, Creed played. 1941 01:30:33,535 --> 01:30:36,410 They brought out a guy from The Doors to play with them, 1942 01:30:36,493 --> 01:30:40,118 but as a 19-year-old, that meant less than nothing to me. 1943 01:30:40,201 --> 01:30:42,034 They're trotting this guy out on stage. 1944 01:30:42,118 --> 01:30:44,493 This is Robby Krieger from The Doors, man. 1945 01:30:44,576 --> 01:30:45,660 (CROWD CHEERING) 1946 01:30:46,660 --> 01:30:48,326 SCOTT: There wasn't this excitement 1947 01:30:48,410 --> 01:30:51,618 that I think people would expect or assume, 1948 01:30:51,702 --> 01:30:55,451 that we had because it just-- it wasn't Woodstock '69. 1949 01:30:55,535 --> 01:30:59,410 But it was our, you know, way of wanting to kind of bring 1950 01:30:59,493 --> 01:31:03,118 someone from that era to 1999. 1951 01:31:03,201 --> 01:31:06,410 And tie those two festivals together. 1952 01:31:07,660 --> 01:31:09,326 DAVE HOLMES: I remember you look at the crowd 1953 01:31:09,410 --> 01:31:11,660 and the crowd is all 22 years old, 1954 01:31:11,743 --> 01:31:14,743 and Robby Krieger could not mean less to them. 1955 01:31:14,827 --> 01:31:16,618 Like, Creed barely means anything to them. 1956 01:31:17,993 --> 01:31:19,660 Thirty years ago when this festival 1957 01:31:19,743 --> 01:31:21,118 first started... 1958 01:31:23,243 --> 01:31:24,702 people came together. 1959 01:31:25,535 --> 01:31:26,910 They came together to love. 1960 01:31:27,618 --> 01:31:29,201 (CROWD CHEERING) 1961 01:31:30,493 --> 01:31:32,993 SCOTT: They came together to show the world 1962 01:31:33,076 --> 01:31:35,660 that they could unify for one cause 1963 01:31:35,743 --> 01:31:37,493 and that the young people's generation 1964 01:31:37,576 --> 01:31:39,493 could make a difference, you know that? 1965 01:31:41,159 --> 01:31:44,576 DAVE HOLMES: By Sunday, it's not the market for nostalgia, 1966 01:31:44,660 --> 01:31:48,201 specifically nostalgia for 30 full years ago. 1967 01:31:48,284 --> 01:31:49,952 (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 1968 01:31:54,284 --> 01:31:58,410 BEN: As we were walking from one band to another, 1969 01:31:58,493 --> 01:32:00,368 I started seeing people with candles 1970 01:32:00,451 --> 01:32:02,702 and I was like, "Why do you have a candle?" 1971 01:32:02,785 --> 01:32:04,034 And there were more people with candles 1972 01:32:04,118 --> 01:32:05,785 and more people with candles. 1973 01:32:08,368 --> 01:32:09,702 ROB: They handed out candles, 1974 01:32:09,785 --> 01:32:12,326 specifically trying to get people to set fire to them. 1975 01:32:12,410 --> 01:32:15,076 And hold them aloft, you know, in a sort 1976 01:32:15,159 --> 01:32:18,118 of Melanie lay down candles in the rain sort of vibe. 1977 01:32:18,201 --> 01:32:19,660 ♪ (SOFT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 1978 01:32:21,284 --> 01:32:23,034 MAUREEN: It makes complete sense. 1979 01:32:23,118 --> 01:32:26,118 It's a horrible irony that it was a group 1980 01:32:26,201 --> 01:32:28,702 of non-profit volunteers 1981 01:32:28,785 --> 01:32:31,618 who were looking to hold a vigil in memory 1982 01:32:31,702 --> 01:32:33,326 of the victims of Columbine 1983 01:32:33,410 --> 01:32:35,159 that they handed these candles off to kids 1984 01:32:35,243 --> 01:32:38,952 who then just torched everything. 1985 01:32:40,159 --> 01:32:41,159 (CROWD CHEERING) 1986 01:32:41,243 --> 01:32:45,618 FLEA: Hey, if you have at home or in your car, 1987 01:32:45,702 --> 01:32:47,243 if you have a gun, 1988 01:32:47,326 --> 01:32:51,118 be sure to throw it away, throw it in the garbage. 1989 01:32:51,201 --> 01:32:52,993 Just get the fuck rid of it. 1990 01:32:54,493 --> 01:32:56,618 -Don't need that shit. -(CROWD CHEERING) 1991 01:33:01,743 --> 01:33:03,284 MAN 1: The east stage is on fire. 1992 01:33:03,368 --> 01:33:06,076 -MAN 2: East Stage is still on fire? -MAN 1: Yeah, they're on fire. 1993 01:33:06,159 --> 01:33:08,743 Hey, they started the east stage on fire. 1994 01:33:08,827 --> 01:33:10,785 BEN: We started to make our way over 1995 01:33:10,868 --> 01:33:14,201 to Red Hot Chili Peppers, and we can see in the distance 1996 01:33:14,284 --> 01:33:15,993 big fires shooting up in the sky. 1997 01:33:16,076 --> 01:33:17,952 ♪ ("UNDER THE BRIDGE" BY RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS PLAYING) ♪ 1998 01:33:18,034 --> 01:33:22,868 ♪ Sometimes I feel like I don't have a partner ♪ 1999 01:33:22,952 --> 01:33:27,910 ♪ Sometimes I feel Like my only friend ♪ 2000 01:33:27,993 --> 01:33:31,201 ♪ Is the city I live in... ♪ 2001 01:33:32,076 --> 01:33:33,326 MAN 1: Shit, it's real fire. 2002 01:33:33,410 --> 01:33:35,326 MAN 2: What do you guys see? What do you guys see? 2003 01:33:35,410 --> 01:33:37,451 Yo, the east stage, fire there with the big trucks. 2004 01:33:37,535 --> 01:33:40,118 -Yeah. -It's Lord of the Flies down there. 2005 01:33:40,201 --> 01:33:42,201 -(CROWD CHEERING) -♪ (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 2006 01:33:53,410 --> 01:33:57,576 JOHN: Hey, guys, as you can see if you look behind you, 2007 01:33:58,284 --> 01:34:00,159 we have a bit of a problem. 2008 01:34:00,243 --> 01:34:01,910 Chili Peppers are gonna come back. 2009 01:34:01,993 --> 01:34:05,284 Calm down. We don't want anybody to get hurt. 2010 01:34:05,368 --> 01:34:07,993 So the fire department is gonna have to come in 2011 01:34:08,076 --> 01:34:11,493 with a firetruck to put the fire out. 2012 01:34:11,576 --> 01:34:15,368 If everybody can cooperate, we'd appreciate it. 2013 01:34:15,451 --> 01:34:19,493 You guys who are back there, all the way back, near the fire, 2014 01:34:19,576 --> 01:34:21,827 if you can hear me, back away. 2015 01:34:21,910 --> 01:34:23,868 MTV HOST: This is a very dangerous situation. 2016 01:34:23,952 --> 01:34:25,576 Everyone is trying to get out of here. 2017 01:34:25,660 --> 01:34:26,993 -Yes. -I think we're going to go. 2018 01:34:27,076 --> 01:34:28,618 JOHN: So let's back away. 2019 01:34:28,702 --> 01:34:30,368 Let the fire department do their job. 2020 01:34:30,451 --> 01:34:33,159 -Make sure nobody gets hurt. -(CROWD CHEERING) 2021 01:34:38,702 --> 01:34:40,743 JOSEPH GRIFFO: That night, I went to Anthony Kiedis 2022 01:34:40,827 --> 01:34:43,201 and said to him, "You need to help us. 2023 01:34:43,284 --> 01:34:45,076 We need to quell this crowd 2024 01:34:45,159 --> 01:34:47,910 in order to get there and take these fires down." 2025 01:34:47,993 --> 01:34:49,159 Holy... 2026 01:34:49,243 --> 01:34:52,827 Holy shit. It's Apocalypse Now out there. 2027 01:34:55,034 --> 01:34:57,493 Make way for the fire engine. 2028 01:34:58,660 --> 01:35:00,702 You wanna do it? You wanna do it? 2029 01:35:00,785 --> 01:35:02,660 -Fuck you! -(CROWD CHEERING) 2030 01:35:05,618 --> 01:35:10,576 ♪ ("FIRE" BY JIMI HENDRIX PLAYING) ♪ 2031 01:35:10,660 --> 01:35:12,201 JOSEPH: And what he did is went out 2032 01:35:12,284 --> 01:35:15,660 and on his encore played "Fire" from Jimi Hendrix. 2033 01:35:15,743 --> 01:35:18,326 ♪ You don't care for me I don't-a care about that ♪ 2034 01:35:18,410 --> 01:35:21,284 ♪ You got a new fool, ha I like to laugh at ♪ 2035 01:35:21,368 --> 01:35:24,034 ♪ I have only one A-burnin' desire ♪ 2036 01:35:24,118 --> 01:35:26,243 ♪ Okay, let me stand Next to your fire ♪ 2037 01:35:26,326 --> 01:35:28,868 ♪ Let me stand Next to your fire ♪ 2038 01:35:28,952 --> 01:35:31,243 ♪ Let me stand Next to your fire ♪ 2039 01:35:31,326 --> 01:35:33,910 ♪ Let me stand Next to your fire ♪ 2040 01:35:33,993 --> 01:35:36,159 ♪ Let me stand Next to your fire ♪ 2041 01:35:37,034 --> 01:35:38,660 ♪ Oh, come here, girl ♪ 2042 01:35:40,284 --> 01:35:41,868 ROB: At that point, the violence in the crowd 2043 01:35:41,952 --> 01:35:43,576 had already started to spread and started 2044 01:35:43,660 --> 01:35:45,535 -to get really destructive. -(PEOPLE SCREAMING) 2045 01:35:46,827 --> 01:35:49,702 ROB: All weekend long the promoters spoke a lot 2046 01:35:49,785 --> 01:35:52,284 about turning swords into plow shares, 2047 01:35:52,368 --> 01:35:54,284 but what we saw Sunday night 2048 01:35:54,368 --> 01:35:57,159 was a lot of turning back into swords. 2049 01:35:57,243 --> 01:36:00,201 ♪ (MUSIC CONTINUES PLAYING) ♪ 2050 01:36:12,368 --> 01:36:15,034 (ALL CHEER) 2051 01:36:24,868 --> 01:36:27,785 KEN: Things escalated pretty quickly. 2052 01:36:27,868 --> 01:36:31,326 There was tension in the air, but by the end of that set, 2053 01:36:31,410 --> 01:36:34,243 -it was like a powder keg. -(PEOPLE SCREAMING) 2054 01:36:41,326 --> 01:36:42,910 ♪ (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 2055 01:37:00,785 --> 01:37:04,493 KEN: We kind of graduated from, like, just trash and wood fires. 2056 01:37:04,576 --> 01:37:06,660 We ended up going to get into the trucks 2057 01:37:06,743 --> 01:37:08,118 where they had the supplies, 2058 01:37:08,201 --> 01:37:09,743 like the food and drinks and stuff. 2059 01:37:09,827 --> 01:37:12,243 And then I specifically remember, 2060 01:37:12,326 --> 01:37:14,576 like, one of the trucks I went into 2061 01:37:14,660 --> 01:37:16,034 had frozen pretzels, 2062 01:37:16,118 --> 01:37:19,034 so we're flinging frozen pretzels 2063 01:37:19,118 --> 01:37:21,410 through the fire like a bunch of idiots. 2064 01:37:21,493 --> 01:37:23,451 MAN: It's free! Let's go! 2065 01:37:24,993 --> 01:37:26,952 KEN: I had more water Sunday night during the riots 2066 01:37:27,034 --> 01:37:28,952 than I probably had the rest of the weekend combined. 2067 01:37:29,034 --> 01:37:31,201 Because we finally had access to all this stuff. 2068 01:37:31,284 --> 01:37:32,785 (PEOPLE CHEERING, SCREAMING) 2069 01:37:42,118 --> 01:37:43,368 KEN: And that night, you know, 2070 01:37:43,451 --> 01:37:45,451 from the Chili Peppers' set onward, 2071 01:37:45,535 --> 01:37:48,201 like, we had the power at that point, 2072 01:37:48,284 --> 01:37:50,451 like, we controlled everything that was happening 2073 01:37:50,535 --> 01:37:52,076 from that point forward. 2074 01:37:54,076 --> 01:37:56,660 It did feel like this unifying force, 2075 01:37:56,743 --> 01:38:00,535 like these are my people now, and we're gonna go crazy. 2076 01:38:00,618 --> 01:38:02,660 -(EXCLAIMS) -(INDISTINCT CHATTER) 2077 01:38:10,159 --> 01:38:13,076 KEN: And I don't know, I'm not a guy, I never in a million years 2078 01:38:13,159 --> 01:38:15,576 would have thought I'd somehow gotten drawn into a riot, 2079 01:38:15,660 --> 01:38:20,076 but, man, it just-- it was just kind of-- it just happened. 2080 01:38:20,159 --> 01:38:22,159 -(CROWD CHEERING) -(INDISTINCT CHATTER) 2081 01:38:47,451 --> 01:38:50,118 It's like a 20-dollar fucking value box. 2082 01:38:50,201 --> 01:38:52,201 -MAN: How much did you pay for 'em? -Free! 2083 01:38:52,284 --> 01:38:53,827 -And jackets. -Free! 2084 01:38:53,910 --> 01:38:55,952 MAUREEN: When kids are ripping open ATM machines 2085 01:38:56,034 --> 01:38:57,326 with their bare hands 2086 01:38:57,410 --> 01:39:00,660 and lighting Mercedes-Benzes on fire, 2087 01:39:00,743 --> 01:39:04,618 I mean, they're telling you what they think of your greed. 2088 01:39:04,702 --> 01:39:06,201 ♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 2089 01:39:24,952 --> 01:39:26,284 (MAN WHISTLING) 2090 01:39:29,076 --> 01:39:30,576 KEN: I mean, it's a little concerning 2091 01:39:30,660 --> 01:39:33,618 that I could go from, like, a pretty mild-mannered kid 2092 01:39:33,702 --> 01:39:37,159 on day one and then by midnight on Sunday, 2093 01:39:37,243 --> 01:39:39,660 it is straight Lord of the Flies out there, 2094 01:39:39,743 --> 01:39:42,493 and I'm losing my damn mind like an idiot. 2095 01:39:42,576 --> 01:39:44,618 When in Rome, I guess, I don't know. 2096 01:39:47,827 --> 01:39:49,535 GUARD OVER RADIO: 2097 01:39:53,159 --> 01:39:54,576 GUARD 2 OVER RADIO: 2098 01:39:59,159 --> 01:40:01,201 MAN: Turn that fucking camera off. 2099 01:40:01,284 --> 01:40:03,410 MAN 2: They've got the cops here now. 2100 01:40:03,493 --> 01:40:05,076 GUARD OVER RADIO: 2101 01:40:07,118 --> 01:40:09,910 MAN: Fucking you better be worried, guy. 2102 01:40:10,952 --> 01:40:13,159 GUARD OVER RADIO: 2103 01:40:16,076 --> 01:40:18,201 JAKE: When things started to get really bad, 2104 01:40:18,284 --> 01:40:20,827 I had everybody turn their shirts inside out 2105 01:40:20,910 --> 01:40:23,535 and put their credentials down inside their shirts 2106 01:40:23,618 --> 01:40:26,785 because I didn't know if, you know, 2107 01:40:26,868 --> 01:40:29,326 we were all of a sudden gonna become targets maybe. 2108 01:40:29,410 --> 01:40:31,576 -(SIREN WAILING) -(INDISTINCT CHATTER) 2109 01:40:36,618 --> 01:40:38,702 JAKE: When the police finally did roll in, 2110 01:40:38,785 --> 01:40:40,326 you know, it was like hats and bats 2111 01:40:40,410 --> 01:40:43,243 and shields and, you know, here they came. 2112 01:40:43,326 --> 01:40:46,660 -Here we go. -Party's over. 2113 01:40:46,743 --> 01:40:48,493 POLICE OFFICER: This is outta control! 2114 01:40:52,243 --> 01:40:55,952 KEN: You know, we're a bunch of 20-year-old white kids, 2115 01:40:56,034 --> 01:40:57,910 so when we start burning a bunch of stuff down 2116 01:40:57,993 --> 01:40:59,743 and, like, stealing from ATMs 2117 01:40:59,827 --> 01:41:02,243 and just burning this whole thing down, 2118 01:41:02,326 --> 01:41:04,952 the riot police, they come in very polite, 2119 01:41:05,034 --> 01:41:06,410 you know, and just move people out. 2120 01:41:06,493 --> 01:41:09,868 Man, they talk about white privileges like, Jesus Christ, 2121 01:41:09,952 --> 01:41:12,785 like if this was a hip-hop festival in 2020 2122 01:41:12,868 --> 01:41:14,243 and people started burning it down, 2123 01:41:14,326 --> 01:41:16,159 -it would not go so nicely. -♪ (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 2124 01:41:20,076 --> 01:41:21,827 Yeah, dude, you're the man. 2125 01:41:24,243 --> 01:41:26,660 JAKE: There was a sense of all the people 2126 01:41:26,743 --> 01:41:29,326 who were rioting for lack of a better term, 2127 01:41:29,410 --> 01:41:32,910 at that point, were kind of like together 2128 01:41:32,993 --> 01:41:34,868 in that rioting, you know. It was like, 2129 01:41:34,952 --> 01:41:37,076 they finally all had a sense of purpose. 2130 01:41:37,159 --> 01:41:40,326 Listen, look right there. See the little yellow light? 2131 01:41:40,410 --> 01:41:42,034 That means we've got five minutes left 2132 01:41:42,118 --> 01:41:44,451 till the end of Woodstock 1999. 2133 01:41:44,535 --> 01:41:45,493 (CROWD CHEERING) 2134 01:41:45,576 --> 01:41:48,576 Okay, so we have a time for one more song. 2135 01:41:48,660 --> 01:41:50,243 SCOTT STAPP: And then it just couldn't have been 2136 01:41:50,326 --> 01:41:53,493 planned better, you know, with Megadeth closing. 2137 01:41:53,576 --> 01:41:57,284 And closing with their tune "Peace Sells... but Who's Buying?" 2138 01:41:57,368 --> 01:42:00,243 ♪ Peace sells But who's buying? ♪ 2139 01:42:00,326 --> 01:42:02,702 ♪ Peace sells But who's buying? ♪ 2140 01:42:02,785 --> 01:42:04,827 DAVE MUSTAINE: We are in a service business. 2141 01:42:04,910 --> 01:42:07,118 Those of us who are troubadours. 2142 01:42:07,201 --> 01:42:10,159 And what's happened is along the way 2143 01:42:10,243 --> 01:42:12,660 the tax collector came in. 2144 01:42:12,743 --> 01:42:15,201 MAN 1: People are sick of being ripped off. 2145 01:42:15,284 --> 01:42:17,910 This was a great time, but there's no way 2146 01:42:17,993 --> 01:42:21,034 it was worth paying four dollars for a water. 2147 01:42:21,118 --> 01:42:24,660 I mean, they were all about making money off us 2148 01:42:24,743 --> 01:42:27,284 and we're all about getting wasted and partying. 2149 01:42:27,368 --> 01:42:30,576 I mean, it's just not cool and we're pissed. 2150 01:42:30,660 --> 01:42:33,660 You know, the question really very quickly 2151 01:42:33,743 --> 01:42:38,159 became, not "How could this have happened?" 2152 01:42:38,243 --> 01:42:39,868 But "How could it not?" 2153 01:42:42,451 --> 01:42:43,743 JOURNALIST: John, there was a kind 2154 01:42:43,827 --> 01:42:48,201 of gradual breakdown of the whole infrastructure 2155 01:42:48,284 --> 01:42:49,910 and as the day went on 2156 01:42:49,993 --> 01:42:52,410 I didn't really see much of a presence at all 2157 01:42:52,493 --> 01:42:53,868 of the security guards except maybe 2158 01:42:53,952 --> 01:42:55,535 at some of the gates. 2159 01:42:55,618 --> 01:42:56,910 Can you speak to that? 2160 01:42:56,993 --> 01:42:59,993 Where were the guards when the fires were being set? 2161 01:43:00,076 --> 01:43:02,868 JOHN: You know, I think I used this term then, 2162 01:43:02,952 --> 01:43:04,910 there were a bunch of knuckleheads. 2163 01:43:05,952 --> 01:43:08,326 You know? A bunch of knuckleheads 2164 01:43:08,410 --> 01:43:11,368 that caused those problems 2165 01:43:11,451 --> 01:43:13,660 and despite those problems, 2166 01:43:13,743 --> 01:43:15,827 the overwhelming number of people 2167 01:43:15,910 --> 01:43:19,243 that attended had a great time. 2168 01:43:19,326 --> 01:43:24,201 Really the biggest problem was that MTV set the tone 2169 01:43:24,284 --> 01:43:27,159 so we got killed in the press 2170 01:43:27,243 --> 01:43:33,952 and I didn't figure on Fred Durst inciting a riot. 2171 01:43:34,034 --> 01:43:35,868 -(CHUCKLES) -♪ (MILD-TEMPO MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 2172 01:43:37,660 --> 01:43:40,326 STEVEN: About three months after Woodstock '99, 2173 01:43:40,410 --> 01:43:43,618 the first iteration of Coachella debuts. 2174 01:43:43,702 --> 01:43:46,618 And you couldn't ask for a more stark 2175 01:43:46,702 --> 01:43:50,493 like Goofus and Gallant version of music festivals at this time. 2176 01:43:52,368 --> 01:43:55,660 MOBY: It was in Palm Springs, and it was balmy. 2177 01:43:55,743 --> 01:43:57,076 There's Bjork performing 2178 01:43:57,159 --> 01:43:59,410 and there's enlightened, progressive hip-hop. 2179 01:43:59,493 --> 01:44:02,034 Coachella '99 really was everything 2180 01:44:02,118 --> 01:44:05,159 Woodstock '99 should have been. 2181 01:44:06,535 --> 01:44:08,201 STEVEN: When people were walking in, 2182 01:44:08,284 --> 01:44:10,118 they were handed a free water bottle. 2183 01:44:10,201 --> 01:44:11,618 There was free parking. I mean, 2184 01:44:11,702 --> 01:44:14,702 those two things seemed like they were in direct response 2185 01:44:14,785 --> 01:44:17,702 to the excesses at Woodstock '99. 2186 01:44:18,910 --> 01:44:22,326 I will say, however, that as Coachella progresses, 2187 01:44:22,410 --> 01:44:25,284 and this is also true of all the big festivals now, 2188 01:44:25,368 --> 01:44:28,118 it's pretty clear that the power dynamics 2189 01:44:28,201 --> 01:44:29,326 that come into play 2190 01:44:29,410 --> 01:44:32,451 haven't really changed, it's just that they're cleaner. 2191 01:44:32,535 --> 01:44:34,618 And if you wanna assert your power, 2192 01:44:34,702 --> 01:44:37,118 you just have to be a really wealthy person 2193 01:44:37,201 --> 01:44:39,576 who can afford to be backstage and look 2194 01:44:39,660 --> 01:44:43,618 at all the people out there who aren't as lucky as you are. 2195 01:44:43,702 --> 01:44:45,785 And then you're gonna be able to take photos of yourself 2196 01:44:45,868 --> 01:44:48,785 and show the world that you are someone 2197 01:44:48,868 --> 01:44:50,660 who literally has a badge on themselves 2198 01:44:50,743 --> 01:44:53,326 that says, "Very Important Person." 2199 01:44:53,410 --> 01:44:55,743 MAUREEN: I think progress is all fits and starts, right? 2200 01:44:55,827 --> 01:44:59,868 It's never one direction, it's never completely linear. 2201 01:44:59,952 --> 01:45:03,410 And with the explosion that was Woodstock '99, 2202 01:45:03,493 --> 01:45:06,159 there is a definite umbilical cord 2203 01:45:06,243 --> 01:45:09,702 between the dark, sexual, cultural, 2204 01:45:09,785 --> 01:45:12,993 political underbelly in the country at that time 2205 01:45:13,076 --> 01:45:15,827 to where we are now. 2206 01:45:15,910 --> 01:45:19,368 WESLEY: A lot of that energy that was permeating that crowd that day, 2207 01:45:19,451 --> 01:45:22,493 it just wound up in chatrooms and Reddit boards, 2208 01:45:22,576 --> 01:45:25,159 and it's just fascinating to think about 2209 01:45:25,243 --> 01:45:27,326 because I don't know if it's possible to get 2210 01:45:27,410 --> 01:45:29,952 that collection of people together 2211 01:45:30,034 --> 01:45:34,451 in 2021 without it being a cause for concern. 2212 01:45:34,535 --> 01:45:35,868 ♪ (SOFT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 2213 01:45:35,952 --> 01:45:38,451 STEVEN: To me, the ultimate tragedy of Woodstock '99, 2214 01:45:38,535 --> 01:45:41,827 is that almost all the problems that occurred that weekend 2215 01:45:41,910 --> 01:45:45,910 were foreseeable ahead of time, and therefore preventable. 2216 01:45:45,993 --> 01:45:48,660 This again speaks to the mythology of Woodstock. 2217 01:45:48,743 --> 01:45:50,910 That this was almost like magic fairy pixie dust 2218 01:45:50,993 --> 01:45:53,034 or something that you could just sprinkle... 2219 01:45:53,118 --> 01:45:55,118 (CHUCKLES) ...over all this poor planning 2220 01:45:55,201 --> 01:45:57,535 and because it was Woodstock, it would work. 2221 01:45:57,618 --> 01:46:00,535 But, when you take off the rose-colored glasses, 2222 01:46:00,618 --> 01:46:02,868 and look at Woodstock and what it actually was, 2223 01:46:02,952 --> 01:46:05,034 it was about sequestering yourself from society 2224 01:46:05,118 --> 01:46:06,785 and really living the kind of life 2225 01:46:06,868 --> 01:46:10,201 that wouldn't be sustained, like if we all did that. 2226 01:46:10,284 --> 01:46:12,660 Like if we all went into a field with no police, 2227 01:46:12,743 --> 01:46:17,284 do a lot of drugs and listen to rock music all day long, 2228 01:46:17,368 --> 01:46:19,702 I mean, things would fall apart, I think, pretty quickly. 2229 01:46:19,785 --> 01:46:21,952 -(INDISTINCT CHATTER) -♪ (SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 2230 01:46:26,451 --> 01:46:29,118 NEWS REPORTER 1: At the Woodstock '99 concert 2231 01:46:29,201 --> 01:46:31,743 in Central New York, what was supposed 2232 01:46:31,827 --> 01:46:34,993 to be three days of peace, love and music, 2233 01:46:35,076 --> 01:46:36,910 ended in a night of looting-- 2234 01:46:36,993 --> 01:46:38,284 NEWS REPORTER 2: Commercialism, 2235 01:46:38,368 --> 01:46:40,743 that's what some people say led to the fall of Woodstock '99. 2236 01:46:40,827 --> 01:46:42,910 I mean, the kids were hungry, they were thirsty, they were-- 2237 01:46:42,993 --> 01:46:46,118 NEWS REPORTER 3: The fires were put out this morning and most festival goers 2238 01:46:46,201 --> 01:46:49,576 had left the site by 9:00 a.m., but the Woodstock name 2239 01:46:49,660 --> 01:46:51,076 may have sustained lasting damage. 2240 01:46:51,159 --> 01:46:53,118 NEWS REPORTER 4: First person charged with sexual violence 2241 01:46:53,201 --> 01:46:55,118 at last weekend's Woodstock festival 2242 01:46:55,201 --> 01:46:57,743 turns out to be a New York state prison guard. 2243 01:46:57,827 --> 01:46:59,076 The prison guard was charged 2244 01:46:59,159 --> 01:47:01,535 with sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl. 2245 01:47:01,618 --> 01:47:04,827 NEWS REPORTER 5: Here's another horror story from Woodstock '99 today. 2246 01:47:04,910 --> 01:47:08,410 The police are now investigating four cases of women 2247 01:47:08,493 --> 01:47:10,118 alleging they were raped. 2248 01:47:10,201 --> 01:47:13,034 One woman says she was attacked right in front of the stage 2249 01:47:13,118 --> 01:47:16,952 as the band played on and a lot of people stood by. 2250 01:47:17,034 --> 01:47:19,076 ♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ 2251 01:47:21,410 --> 01:47:23,618 MICHAEL: Had we programmed this more 2252 01:47:23,702 --> 01:47:27,618 along the lines of '94 or '69, 2253 01:47:27,702 --> 01:47:29,576 it would have been a different event 2254 01:47:29,660 --> 01:47:31,576 and attracted a different audience. 2255 01:47:33,326 --> 01:47:35,743 But the intention here was to do something 2256 01:47:35,827 --> 01:47:37,535 very contemporary, 2257 01:47:37,618 --> 01:47:40,868 and that's what contemporary was. 2258 01:47:42,326 --> 01:47:44,785 GARRET: Do you think there'll ever be another Woodstock? 2259 01:47:48,284 --> 01:47:50,451 There always could be another Woodstock. 2260 01:47:50,535 --> 01:47:53,702 I mean, I've just learned never to say never about that. 2261 01:47:58,576 --> 01:48:02,410 ♪ ("THE KIDS AREN'T ALRIGHT" BY THE OFFSPRING PLAYING) ♪ 2262 01:48:35,618 --> 01:48:37,451 MICHAEL: We're taking steps to protect everybody. 2263 01:48:37,535 --> 01:48:40,201 We want it to be a completely safe event. 2264 01:48:40,284 --> 01:48:42,993 You know, there will be zero tolerance for anything, 2265 01:48:43,076 --> 01:48:46,910 you know, other than, you know, proper behavior. 2266 01:48:54,535 --> 01:48:56,743 ♪ When we were young The future was so bright ♪ 2267 01:48:56,827 --> 01:48:59,118 ♪ The old neighborhood Was so alive ♪ 2268 01:48:59,201 --> 01:49:01,660 ♪ And every kid On the whole damn street ♪ 2269 01:49:01,743 --> 01:49:04,076 ♪ Was gonna make it big And not be beat ♪ 2270 01:49:04,159 --> 01:49:06,284 ♪ Now the neighborhood's cracked And torn ♪ 2271 01:49:06,368 --> 01:49:08,576 ♪ The kids are grown up But their lives are worn ♪ 2272 01:49:08,660 --> 01:49:12,785 ♪ How can one little street Swallow so many lives? ♪ 2273 01:49:12,868 --> 01:49:17,827 ♪ Chances thrown Nothing's free ♪ 2274 01:49:17,910 --> 01:49:22,410 ♪ Longing for used to be ♪ 2275 01:49:22,493 --> 01:49:27,284 ♪ Still it's hard, hard to see ♪ 2276 01:49:27,368 --> 01:49:32,576 ♪ Fragile lives Shattered dreams ♪ 2277 01:49:32,660 --> 01:49:33,952 ♪ Go! ♪ 2278 01:49:51,535 --> 01:49:56,368 ♪ Chances thrown Nothing's free ♪ 2279 01:49:56,451 --> 01:50:00,952 ♪ Longing for, used to be ♪ 2280 01:50:01,034 --> 01:50:05,868 ♪ Still it's hard, hard to see ♪ 2281 01:50:05,952 --> 01:50:10,910 ♪ Fragile lives Shattered dreams ♪ 2282 01:50:13,743 --> 01:50:16,076 ♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪